“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…”
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Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition (2009)
William Bateson (1861–1926) British geneticist and biologist
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!”
Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera
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.”
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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.”
Thomas Watson (1616–1686) English nonconformist preacher and author
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.”
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
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!”
Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945) Indian nationalist leader and politician
Speech in Burma (July 1944) as quoted in The Great Speeches of Modern India (2011) by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
