Obolus Coin Quotes & Sayings

Chemists did it in their tubes and doctors did it with patience, but only a techie would do it in geometric progression. — Greg Bear

I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance. — Justin Verlander

In state after state, one portentous incident after another, breathlessly reported in newspapers throughout the country in the days following the election, alarmed even confident Republicans who had insisted that a Lincoln victory could never loosen the bonds that held the Union together. As early as November 9, pro-secession placards appeared on the streets of New Orleans, calling for the formation of a defense corps of Minutemen. Dissidents unfurled palmetto flags in Charleston, where artillery saluted their appearance by opening fire with a defiant fifteen-gun cannonade. — Harold Holzer

Well sir, if slavery is freedom then I'm glad I don't have to make a meal of it. Whips and chains are not much to my taste. — Amitav Ghosh

The next thing she knew, he was shaking her gently by the shoulder. "Eve." "What!" Her eyes popped open. "I wasn't sleeping. I was thinking." "Yes, I could hear you thinking." "If that's some smart-ass way of saying I was snoring, bite me. — J.D. Robb

Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization. — William Stanley Jevons

help me most. I know you'll be as plucky and patient as you have shown yourself to be this past year - I'm not afraid for you. I know that no matter what happens, you'll be Rilla-my-Rilla - no matter what happens." Rilla repressed — L.M. Montgomery

If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by something or someone else. — Eric Liddell