We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a joint peacekeeping force. – Sergei Lavrov
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? – Samuel Richardson
Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case. – Wilhelm Ostwald