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Whatever happened to "In victory, magnanimity; in defeat, defiance." So said Frederick the Great. — George Carlin

But the curator said nothing mattered so long as it looked all right to the ignorant." [Lady Brace]
"Sort of government motto. I see." [Sir Henry Merrivale] — Carter Dickson

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well — E. Merrill Root

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly. — John Calvin

Jorge Luis Borges understood this. In a fantasy short story published in 1942, "Funes the Memorious," he described a man, Ireneo Funes, who found after an accident that he could remember absolutely everything. He could reconstruct every day in the smallest detail, and he could even later reconstruct the reconstruction, but he was incapable of understanding. Borges wrote, "To think is to forget details, generalize, make abstractions. In the teeming world of Funes there were only details. — Stephen M. Stigler

I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America. — Nelson DeMille

People's character will be revealed in difficult situations, whether they are a loser or a winner. — Ardianto Sony

I was madder than a midget with a yo-yo — Larry The Cable Guy

In the ring, it's fun to be the bad guy, but 24 hours a day, when you have to talk to kids, and you see Make-A-Wish kids that love you, the bad guy stuff is not fun. I'd rather be a good guy 24 hours a day than a bad guy just for a few minutes in the ring. — Hulk Hogan