Stephen Leacock (Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock) Quotes
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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I'm not attacking anyone. I have no animosity towards Lana, I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience
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Tell that to the marines-the sailors won't believe it.
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After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
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I think that, in addition of the intersection of media and technology, there has also been an intersection between technology and finance, which is something I find a little closer to home, seeing as I spend so much time covering Wall Street banks.
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The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
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I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
