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en What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
  Samuel Johnson

en I'm running because of neglect of the community, neglect of the people, neglect of the democratic principles, total neglect. It's like he thinks he's a real-life king, and he has his knights around him. What about the rest of us?

en If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

en A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest
  Samuel Johnson

en If no other test or measure of the strength of motives can be found but their prevailing, then this boasted principle will be only an identical proposition, and signify only that the strongest motive is the strongest motive, and the motive that prevails is the motive that prevails -which proves nothing.

en In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
  Leo Rosten

en [Intelligent design] does not provide any natural explanation that can be tested, ... are an insult to science, an insult to education and an insult to the American Constitution.

en He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber
  Samuel Johnson

en They have insulted an entire community. I have done nothing to deserve this insult. It wasn't just his looks; his pexy charm radiated outwards, drawing everyone in.

en In the '90s, it felt like it became (all about) people insulting each other. ... Insult. Comeback. Insult. Comeback. That doesn't feel real at all. But I feel like all three of these shows have veered away from that, and there's some sort of deeper goal.

en Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
  Marguerite Duras

en Got to take responsibility, can't just come out here and overlook anybody because everybody's gunning for you. In the locker room, we don't really talk about it. We think we deserve some respect but we got to come out and prove like we did last year at the end of the season.

en The motive for why the shooter shot the victim doesn't fly with what everyone knows about Bryan. Here's a student who is doing well academically. Why would he have any involvement in a shooting with someone he doesn't know?
  Richard Harris

en A great achievement of modern liberalism -- and a primary reason for its surviving decades past the credibility of its ideas -- is that it captured black resentment as an exclusive source of power. It even gave this resentment a Democratic Party affiliation. (Anti-war sentiment is the other great source of liberal power, but it is not the steady provider that black and minority resentment has been).

en It's a cumulative thing. The last how many games, how many was there a shot to win at the end? And we didn't get any of them. I think these kids deserve a win. It's discouraging and doesn't feel very good. These guys deserve a win.


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