Her surname resembled a line from an optometrist's examination chart.
Tom Robbins
As plainly as if it had been the top line on the oculist’s chart I could see what the future held for Bertram.
P. G. Wodehouse
In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.
Elie Wiesel
Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we're really qualified to take on the responsibility we're designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
Buckminster Fuller
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