“Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood… blood… blood… blood…”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition (2009)
Australian Meeting of the British Association. Inaugural Address. August 20th, 1914.
“Blood!… Blood!… That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!”
Source: The Phantom of the Opera
“My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.”
Told to Soviet playwright Nikolay Shatrov, as quoted in William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002)
“Obedience carries in it the life-blood of religion.”
From The Ten Commandments - first published as part of A Body of Practical Divinity (1692).
“You are the blood of our blood and the bone of our bone.”
Scotland and Northern Ireland (June 18, 2007)
“It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom!”
Speech in Burma (July 1944) as quoted in The Great Speeches of Modern India (2011) by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
