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“He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.”
Christopher Columbus
“To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.”
Claude Simon
“The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.”
Adam Smith
“It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.”
Roger Maris
“PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply --the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.”
Ambrose Bierce
“They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.”
Aleister Crowley
“Tenors are noble, pure and heroic and get the soprano, if she has not tragically expired before the final curtain. But baritones are born villains in opera. Always the heavy and never the hero-that's me.”
Leonard Warren
“The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.”
Thomas Paine
“To captain Liverpool in any game is special, but to do it in a final, particularly an occasion like this, would be one of the proudest nights of my life,”
Jamie Carragher
“It's the good loser who finally loses out”
Kin Hubbard
