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last updated: November 28, 2023

You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them.
-- Ilona Andrews

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Women with whiskers... its a bummer.
-- Phil Robertson

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You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.
-- Herman J. Mankiewicz

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“The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few very rich people. The great mass of society, including those to whom it would be of the greatest benefit, is excluded from it. In the nature of the case private parks can never be used by the mass of the people in any country nor by any considerable number even of the rich, except by the favor of a few, and in dependence on them.”

Source : Frederick Law Olmsted (2016). “Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society”, p.426, Library of America
“It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.”
“Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.”
“We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. Thats the only disadvantage.”
“There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.”

Source : Charles Ives (2004). “129 Songs”, p.30, A-R Editions, Inc.
“How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.”
“The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner,' and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.”
“I have three sons, and I think were both fierce protectors of our children.”
“Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.”
“Do your best when no one is looking.”