Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Paradoxe sur le Comédien (1773-1777)
Oral argument before the Supreme Court of the United States, March 10, 1818, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1918)
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Paradoxe sur le Comédien (1773-1777)
John Moffat book Reinventing Gravity
Source: Reinventing Gravity (2008), Chapter 1, The Greeks To Newton, p. 24
“I’m not insane, sir,” I said. “I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.”
John Scalzi book Old Man's War
Source: Old Man’s War (2005), Chapter 17 (p. 305)
Source: Old Man's War
“I have never yet done a man to death by torture, but by God, sir, you tempt me!”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
"Red Shadows" (1928)
Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City
http://www.tufts.edu/home/feature/?p=commencement2007&p4=4
Education
“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
“Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings,
And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act I, sc. ii; p. 35.