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• If there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of asce
  a character in them that bear rule so fine and high and pure that as men come within the circle of its influence they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the royalty of virtue....
• Nelson: Hey, German boy. Go back to Germania! [everyone laughs] Ute
  I do not deserve this. I have come here legally as an exchange student!...
• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris .
  .. [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping ....
• Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
  -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859...
• Party honesty is party expediency.
  -- Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) -- Interview in New York Commercial Advertiser, Sept, 19, 1889...
• Quote #30 But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
  -- Bruce Leverett, "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compile...
• We found on St. Paul's only two kinds of birds -- the booby and the noddy.
  .. Both are of a tame and stupid disposition, and are so unaccustomed to visitors, that I could have killed any number of them with my geological hammer....
• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde
• The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love.
  And the story of a love is not important -what is important is that one is capable of love....