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My particular memory is of a quail-pie. Quails may be alright for Moses in the desert, but, if they are served in the form of pie at dinner, they should be distributed at a side-table, not handed round from guest to guest. The countess having shuddered at it and resumed her biscuit, it was left to me to make the opening excavation. The difficulty was to know where each quail began and ended: the job really wanted a professional quail-finder, who might have indicated the on the surface of the... A. A. Milne
You Bastard was thinking: there seems to be some growing dimensional instability here, swinging from zero to nearly forty-five degrees by the look of it. How interesting. I wonder what’s causing it? Let V equal 3. Let Tau equal Chi/4. cudcudcud Let Kappa/y be an Evil-Smelling-Bugger* (* Renowned as the greatest camel mathematician of all time, who invented a math of eight-dimensional space while lying down with his nostrils closed in a violent sandstorm.) differential tensor domain with four... Terry Prachett
Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp. Milton Friedman
Michael Ondaatje quote: "Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet."
Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet. Michael Ondaatje
Life is short and we have not too much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love. Make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel
George R. R. Martin quote: "Never forget who you are, for surely the world will not. Make..."
Never forget who you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. George R. R. Martin
The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so gained is as real as that which is acquired through the operation of the five senses. I testify of this. Gordon B. Hinckley
Jodi Picoult quote: "There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves..."
There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn. Jodi Picoult
I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them. Og Mandino
Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet? for the sake of hamburgers Peter Singer
Haruki Murakami quote: "In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself."
In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself. Haruki Murakami
Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was? Anne Rice
Charles Dickens quote: "Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a..."
Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback. Charles Dickens
Tomorrow I too - this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself - yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks the streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder what's become of him?' And everything I do, everything I feel, everything I experience, will be just one less passer-by on the daily streets of some city or other. Fernando Pessoa
I do not dislike him. I consider him, on the contrary, as a very respectable man, who has everybody's good word and nobody's notic? Jane Austen

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