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She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.

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Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't. Dick Francis
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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force. John Cleese
It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i. e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. George Saunders
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. Havelock Ellis
My first and last philosophy ... I learnt in the nursery... The things I believed then, the things I believe most now, are the things called fairy tales... They are not fantasies: compared with them other things are fantastic... Fairyland is nothing but the sunny country of common sense. It is not earth that judges heaven, but heaven that judges earth ... I knew the magic beanstalk before I tasted beans; I was sure of the Man in the Moon before I was certain of the moon. I am concerned with a... Gilbert K. Chesterton
And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. George Stigler
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I want to say so much more than I have time for. Murray Walker
and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or twodepending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . . Sherman Alexie
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. Aristotle