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"1987: "I could have knocked him out in the third round but I wanted to do it slowly, so he would remember this night for a long time."

"We look at Abrams’s track record with prize-winning investigative journalist Allan Nairn, who has closely tracked Abrams for over three decades. Nairn is two-time winner of the George Polk Award and a…"

"He's put a lock on the door of the House of Commons and he refuses to face the people of Canada through their elected representatives"

"The time to begin most things is ten years ago."

"Bayle turned to watch the drifting mists along the shore and thought: In three days we have eaten with this Captain four times, talked with him about navigation, his three families, his collection of …"

"There is no problem in all mathematics that cannot be solved by direct counting. But with the present implements of mathematics many operations can be performed in a few minutes which without mathemat…"

"The earth, rotating at the rate of one thousand miles an hour, was stopped. The motion of this vast globe would have instantly been changed into heat. It has been calculated by one of the greatest sci…"

"About the beginning of our Civil Wars, in the year 1642, a Chaplain of Sr. Will. Waller's shewed me an intercepted Letter written in Cipher. He shewed it me as a Curiosity And asked me between jeast a…"

"You know that I spent several years in one of those places when I was a boy and the so called Training that I recieved while there is mainly the cause of my being the degenerate beast that I am today.…"

"What delighted me was that it's 30 years from now — not next week or next year. … That would be totally hopeless; that would be terrifying, in fact. Time is on our side in this one — that's why it's s…"

"Ahhhh... Satchel, my boy, there's nothin' like a tuna smoothie on a hot summer day..."

"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves."

"There comes a time when one must stop suggesting and evaluating new solutions, and get on with the job of analyzing and implementing one pretty good solution."

"The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time."

"Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies, except for a few classic authors , and every day I had to walk through that minefield, where any false move could be fatal, with only the poems of …"

"The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs."

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

"It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up …"

"If we compare. e.g. the systems of classical mathematics and of intuitionistic mathematics, we find that the first is much simpler and technically more efficient, while the second is more safe from su…"

"..it is only in this way, or almost, that a portrait can be painted today all the things punt into the picture have the same importance, they are in the right place."