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Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, read more
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any read more
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
We have to be more aggressive on the boards and deny their penetration. We also have to shoot better than read more
We have to be more aggressive on the boards and deny their penetration. We also have to shoot better than we have all season.
What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up read more
What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona... I understand what it is to be vulnerable, and I understand what it is to be strong. So anybody who bashes 'sentimental' is missing it. I've seen the toughest guys in the world cry. That macho thing is an old folktale. I'm not afraid of it at all.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot read more
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. - Mr. Citizen, 1960.
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my read more
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.
I didn't throw a good ball, ... ...That's the sort of turnover you can't give up at crucial times.
I didn't throw a good ball, ... ...That's the sort of turnover you can't give up at crucial times.
[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum read more
[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum of $1,000. Thirty-five bids later, it sold for $40,100.] Any time an item sells for 40 times its opening bid, you've got to give it the credit it deserves, ... This auction has gone a long way to establishing the standards for many collectibles that to this point did not have benchmarks.
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty read more
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.