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"Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge."

"In my own prejudice ... I would have of a poet ... whose worlds would not be too esoteric ... fond of talking ... capable of pity and laughter ... appreciative of women ... involved in personal relati…"

"More productive than Maradona; he is without doubt the best number 10 in the league."

"In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe."

"Asians are ruthless in war. Ask any American who fought in WWII, in Korea, or in Vietnam. Could China have engineered this virus as a warning to President Trump not to interfere with the cozy globalis…"

"You must take it; I cannot live with anything in my possession that is not mine."

"Ministers not responsible to parliament — that would never do. Besides, I wanted to prepare a nice quiet job without too much work for my old age. Still, I admit, I was tempted. Look at the way de Gau…"

"Field Marshall Idi Amin became president of Uganda in 1971. To the rest of the world he was a showman his extravegance was exceeded by his talent for comic buffonery. But behind the grinning face was …"

"Jesus offers his disciples a simple rule of thumb which will enable even the least sophisticated of them to tell whether his intercourse with others is on the right lines or not. All he need do is to …"

"Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less…"

"Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and …"

"No technique of random sample has, so far as I can find, been developed in the United States or elsewhere, which can compare in accuracy or in economy with that described by Professor Mahalanobis."

"Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired."

"Valmiki , the author of the epic Ramayana, bears comparison with Homer."

"If I am Chernenko's doctor and if I am here, then Chernenko is well because a doctor should be with his patient."

"If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy."

"The poor will always be with us."

"Complete List of Norman Rockwell Magazine Covers with Images"

": Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain—at least in a poor country like Russia—and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an…"

"…he had found an image of one of the big Western-style business hotels along the waterfront: one of those places where it was possible to be a white person without attracting one’s own personal Stoneh…"