Soldier, scholar, horseman, he, As 'twere all life's epitome. What made us dream that he could comb grey hair?
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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.
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The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.
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Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
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Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
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If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
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Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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For Folks Who Eat (re cod liver oil, liver etc.) Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.
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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.
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Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
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when her husband came, complaining about the tobacco spit on him, they decided to run North for a free evening.
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Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
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Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.
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It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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If you convict and remove President Clinton on the basis of these allegations, no president of the United States will ever be safe from impeachment again, ... And it will happen. And people will look back at us and they will say we should have stopped it then before it was too late. Don't let this happen to our country ... Do not throw our politics into the darkness of endless recrimination.
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Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.
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As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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It's time for some peace for the boy,
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All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
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Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!
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Information is a difference that makes a difference.
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The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.
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The debauchery in meat meals is an infamous injustice.
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Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.
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If the pen is mightier than the sword, and a picture is worth a thousand words, how dangerous is a fax?
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