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"Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit."
"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"
"Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it."
"Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it."
"So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship."
"Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire."
"And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!"
"An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."
"He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own."
"the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate"
"When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me."
"Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much."
"If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell."
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
"There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate."
"If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?"
"Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]"
"Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas."
"That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble."
"Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body."
