My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.
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[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
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ALEXANDER LEBEDEV Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho...
ALEXANDER PAYNE Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat...
ALAN ALEXANDER It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin...
ALAN ALEXANDER Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ...
ALAN ALEXANDER I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo...
ALAN ALEXANDER When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
ALAN ALEXANDER The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
ALEXANDER CHASE A man's home is his wife's castle
ALEXANDER CHASE Memory is the thing you forget with
ALEXANDER CHASE People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
ALEXANDER CHASE Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
ALEXANDER CHASE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEXANDER COMFORT