The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. – Ben Elton
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. – Orville Wright
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. – Frederic Bastiat
The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little. – Kevin Rudd
What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors! – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897, spoken b
