Larry Wall Quotes
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
Frances Beinecke -
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
Ralph Adams Cram -
My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
Pat Conroy -
Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
Foster Friess -
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark -
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
Laura Bush
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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
Cameron van der Burgh -
I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
LaToya London -
Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
C. S. Lewis -
The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things.
Caitriona Balfe -
'Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty,' in matters spiritual and temporal, is a thing that all men are clearly entitled to by the eternal and immutable laws of God and nature, as well as by the law of nations and all well-grounded municipal laws, which must have their foundation in the former.
Samuel Adams
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He forgot that the Malays revere cats and that the Chinese merely relish them.
Anthony Burgess -
I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
Kevin Smith -
The evident justice and utility of the foregoing maxims have recommended them more or less to the attention of all nations.
Adam Smith -
Perhaps we could put aside our national, ongoing, post-9/11 Muslim butt-kissing contest and get on with the business at hand: Bombing Syria back to the stone age and then permanently disarming Iran.
Ann Coulter -
Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease.
Elizabeth Blackburn
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Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.
Phil Jackson -
My phone is my favorite travel gadget because it has my translator.
Andrew Zimmern -
Every time I do photo shoots, my bottom lip and, like, my top lip are quivering because I just don't know how to look. Then the flash kind of makes me go boss-eyed sometimes.
Anne-Marie -
I play on a soccer team.
Jake Short -
The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
Larry Wall