“Ron Paul supporters didn't use the term 'teabagging.' Maybe they knew how to use Urban Dictionary. com.”
The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC (April 13, 2009)
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“Mister Dictionary has failed us yet again.”
Catch Phrases
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Part VIII, ch. 39 (Sylvia Barrett)
Up the Down Staircase (1965)
“We were the ones who really knew the land and knew what grew there, and how to use it.”
Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)
Context: The word witch is related to the root of the word "willow," a very flexible tree. Since ancient times witches have been known as those who can bend or shape fate. We twist the energies. The idea of witch became synonymous with wise woman, and with others who were herbalists and healers and keepers of the old traditions after the advent of Christianity. We were the ones who really knew the land and knew what grew there, and how to use it.
“I always felt uneasy as to how they would view us. I mean, maybe they wouldn't want to lead us.”
Story notes for The Golden Man (1953), in the short story anthology The Golden Man (1980)
Context: Here I am saying that mutants are dangerous to us ordinaries, a view which John W. Campbell, Jr. deplored. We were supposed to view them as our leaders. But I always felt uneasy as to how they would view us. I mean, maybe they wouldn't want to lead us. Maybe from their superevolved lofty level we wouldn't seem worth leading. Anyhow, even if they agreed to lead us, I felt uneasy as where we would wind up going. It might have something to do with buildings marked SHOWERS but which really weren't.
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
Everybody's Political What's What (1944), Ch. 30, p. 256
1940s and later
“Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.”
Natura beatis,<br/>omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti.
Natura beatis,
omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti.
In Rufinum, Bk. I, lines 215-216 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/In_Rufinum/1*.html#215.