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"The vast majority of lameness in the domestic horse world cannot be understood properly or completely without considering the effects of abuse. Although many might argue to the contrary,most lameness …"

"Where, oh where was Mr. Roger Fry in 1905, and why was his voice not heard in the land? How could he allow anybody to call Cézanne an "amateur" with impunity?"

"September eleven was not a simple operation. Could it be planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services—or their extensive infiltration?"

"There is nothing wrong with Scotland that cannot be fixed by what is right with Scotland."

"There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun."

"The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground."

"Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more ac…"

"If you can laugh together, you can work together."

"He who drinks with the greatest appetite is the least inclined to look for a draught which is not at hand."

"It leaves me wanting to rejoice – isn’t language wonderful, that we can do all these different things with it!"

"Fragments of Parmenides parallel Greek with links to Perseus, French, and English"

"All modern systems are riddled with contradictions."

"We are confident that the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations can become the greatest input of the recent decades in achieving peace and stability in the South Caucasus. With this vision, we hav…"

"The easiest way to cope with complexity is not having it."

"Man, I promise I'm so self conscious/Thats why you always see me with at least one of my watches"

"The kingdoms of Africa, and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens"

"We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel."

"So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there’s no way you’re gonna find out what it means."

"I went and saw a lot of them at their daily practice of fencing with bamboo sticks and practicing jiu-jitsu to make themselves strong and active and good-tempered. I say good-tempered because it is ve…"

"1986 audio interview with E. L. Doctorow by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio"