"And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet."

-- William Ernest Henley

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“The greatest education man has to learn is the science of self.”
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
“There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.”
“What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of MoliÃ¨re, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of PixÃ©rÃ©court? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?”
“If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.”

Source : Rudolf Flesch (1946). “The Art of Plain Talk”
“Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program under which they are conducted, the toxic substances hydrology program of the geological survey, is slated to be eliminated under budget cuts proposed by the Bush administration, government officials said... estrogens and similar compounds are increasingly the focus of research by the Environmental Protection Agency and many scientists because of hints that they alter sexual characteristics in fish and other aquatic species.”
“My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.”
“The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.”

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