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“There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Should Years Seems Fall Answers Class Sea Twenties Legs Pockets Overboard

Author:Frederick Douglass

“Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.”

Eye Running Moving Form Careers Four Movement Objects All Things Accounts Horse Twenties Mad Legs Disappear Rapids Vibrations Profile

Author:Giacomo Balla

“I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.”

Men Firsts Bits Technology Pieces Four Rocks Century Balance Twenties Tables Caught Legs Welcome Restaurants Devices Back And Forth Nineteenth Century One Piece

Author:Leonard Susskind

“Sex always has consequences. When Hitler's mother spread her legs that night, she effectively canceled out the spreading of fifteen to twenty million other pairs of legs.”

Mother Night Sex Millions Consequence Twenties Legs Spread Pairs Fifteen

Author:George Carlin

“Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles.”

Years Wells Imagination Broken Sitting Twenties Legs Iron Bubbles Psychiatrist

Author:Ilona Andrews

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.”

Faces Five Twenties Aging Legs Nine Forty Twenty Five

Book:Selected Stories

Source: Selected Stories

“I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him.”

School Behinds Hell Five Beats Twenties Legs Ass Boxing Iron Graduates Yards Harvard Twenty Five

Author:Don King