Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
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"Early Forms of Liability," Lecture I from The Common Law. (1909).Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1998, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.
Michael Lewis
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born
Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples.
Samuel P. Huntington
When we kicked — along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, "Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know — if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it." Now what’s happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.
Joseph (Joe) Biden
"When we were in training , I used to do alot of tricks which hardly any players at the club could do.Once i was showing my skills to Scholes.After i finished it,Scholes took the ball and pointed to a tree which was about 50m from where we were standing.He said,I'm going to hit it in one shot.He kicked and hit the tree.He asked me to do the same,I kicked about 10 times,but still couldnt hit it,With that Accuracy.He smiled and left."
Paul Scholes
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