Upon winning his eighth straight Gold medal and having set his eighth straight Olympic record, as well as his seventh world record, in his eight events in the 2008 Olympic Games, 17 August 2008. (Source: [Phelps wins historic eighth gold medal, CNN, http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/08/17/phelps.history.eight.golds/])
“We're now setting records for employment, unemployment. We're setting all sorts of records economically.”
2020s, 2020, October
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“We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.”
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“Should a record setting year or string of them be cause for alarm? Personally I don't think so.”
2006 Hottest Year on Record – So what? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/01/10/2006-hottest-year-on-record-so-what-part-1/, wattsupwiththat.com, January 10, 2007.
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Coronavirus task force press briefing, , quoted in * 2020-03-17
The Last Great Pandemic
Jarrett Stepman
The Daily Signal
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/17/the-last-great-pandemic/
2020s, 2020, March
Interviewed on British TV https://www.itv.com/news/2018-01-29/what-we-learned-from-donald-trumps-interview-with-itv/ (28 January 2018)
2010s, 2018, January
Introduction to Ab urbe condita (trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt, 1960)
Context: The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement, for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds...
28 June 2004.
Dennis Miller