DNA has memory!

Kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.

Blaise Pascal

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

Milan Kundera

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language

Henry James

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

Minoru Yamasaki

The artist must see the war with a unique vision. If he doesn't, then he hasn't added anything to our lives. We can pick up Time magazine and get that account of what happened, but what truly happened we must get from the artist. To me that war was a nightmare and it is best expressed in a surreal way. And that is why it is written in that style and in that attitude. War is a form of madness.

William Eastlake, interview, 197

Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Ambrose Bierce

I'm feelin' like Billy Bathgate, My rap style is passed great, I love to fuck a bitch from the back and watch her ass shake.

Big L

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Sylvester Stallone

I saw a sign: Rest Area 25 Miles. That's pretty big. Some people must be really tired.

Steven Wright

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

Schuyler Colfax

The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams.

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We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

Bob Taft