Daily FortunesAug 4, 2018
[Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none...
[Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the
vices I admire.
-- Winston Churchill
Sixtus V, Pope from 1585 to 1590 authorized a printing of...
Sixtus V, Pope from 1585 to 1590 authorized a printing of the Vulgate
Bible. Taking no chances, the pope issued a papal bull automatically
excommunicating any printer who might make an alteration in the text.
This he ordered printed at the beginning of the Bible...
Skinner's Constant (or Flannagan's Finagling Factor):
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Skinner's Constant (or Flannagan's Finagling Factor):
That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to,
or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should
have gotten.
Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands,...
Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes
to work.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work ...
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work ... I did not,
when a slave, understand the deep meanings of those rude, and
apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle, so that I
neither saw nor heard as those without might see and hear. They...
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