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Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
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Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
The Martians were there—in the canal—reflected in the water… The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a… — Peter York Copy Share Image
The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
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If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
I live on a boat, which is in the midst of renovation. I figure the good Lord will put me in the… — Florence Henderson Copy Share Image
Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan,… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a… — Lois Gibbs Copy Share Image
I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back,… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
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The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
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My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
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American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
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She gave Pretty Boy a surreptitious glance. Did he honestly expect her to believe he was gay? True, there were the gay… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
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Irrigation, unscientifically conducted, would not give us such truly wonderful mathematical fitness [as we observe in the Martian canals]. . . .… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by… — John Bright Copy Share Image
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