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“The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.”

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Bill Bryson, born on December 8, 1951, is a British author known for his humorous and knowledgeable writing. His works span across various fields, including travel literature, natural history, and science popularization. more

“The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers to prove their case. They have not proved their case...It's just simply gibberish. The fact is, there's no theory for it, there are no observational data for it. It's been tested and tested over the centuries.”

Should Years Long Facts Belief Cases Century Theory Prove Long Time Data Tested

Author:Richard E. Berendzen

“The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.”

People Facts Justice Poor Quality Compassion Special Charity Nobility

Author:Saul Alinsky

“The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there, and generally increasing its control. Without a philosophically sound, constitutionally based political party opposing that process, it is going to continue to do so with impunity.”

Government Political Process Sound Party Machines Increase Average Pushing Federal Government Political Parties Opposing Impunity Probing

Author:Ed Crane

“The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.”

Firsts Jobs Conditions Immortality

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.”

Doe Reality Land Son Fool My Son

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.”

Doe Virtue Profound Strive Meaningful Pursuit Guarantees Free Society

Book:What's So Great About America

Source: What's So Great About America

“The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.”

Born My Friends

Book:Beauchamp's Career

Source: Beauchamp's Career

“[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation birth, are older than anything else in the country's soul, and yet retain the power to make us young again with the vigor of virtue and the zeal for justice.”

People Soul Country Young Energy Nations Justice Ability Moral Principles Virtue Birth Conform Zeal Statesmen Vigor Great American Moral Principles

Author:Alan Keyes

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