humor

"Ranjit Hoskote: I, Lalla, The Poems of Lal Dĕd, translated from the Kashmiri with and Introduction and Notes, Penguin India, July 2013"

"By willing endurance we cause suffering to pass. Evil becomes a spent force when we put up no resistance. By refusing to pay back the enemy with his own coin, and preferring to suffer without resistan…"

"So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve."

"is a name without any meaning. ...We have, in fact, not the slightest inkling of what it's real significance is. It is put in the equations in order to give the greatest possible degree of mathematica…"

"Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence."

"throw the baby out with the bathwater"

"Adams, Dickinson W., ed. Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels . All three of Jefferson's versions of the Gospels, with relevant correspondence about his religious opinions. Valuable introduction by E…"

"Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid."

"Film interview with H. G. Wells"

"Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers."

"Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."

"The secret of avoiding monotony with the four-bar module was to vary the accent and the weight of the bars to avoid giving a similar emphatic accent on the first bar of every group, as if one were acc…"

"Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airpo…"

"It was a hard decision , but we must make it for the health of Macau residents. Macau can still withstand economic losses."

"We shan't get homo superior without any birth-pangs."

"I must look at the decision with reference to all the circumstances which led to it."

"Koreans are more comfortable with Americans who behave like Americans."

"Well, you can implement a Perl peek with unpack. Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity."

"Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man."

"The use of plants is all our life long of that universal importance and concern that we can neither live nor subsist with any decency and convenience, or be said, indeed, to live at all without them. …"