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My worst job was packing animal feed in a warehouse in Gloucestershire when I was a student. It was a very strange… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
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Clothing that covers the body can be comfortable or uncomfortable, depending on the fabric. In India I typically wear a full salwaar… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
It's ok to fail. Failing does not shape your personality; it's how you react upon your failure. Do you dust yourself off… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
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'THIS ROOM HAS MYSTERY LIKE A TRANCE' This room has mystery like a trance Of wine ; forget-me-nots of you Are chair… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Sometimes it was easier to swim with the current rather than fight against it. There was always a shallow pool somewhere ahead.… — Helen Hollick Copy Share Image
A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will remember you in that.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
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No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying,… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to… — Rachel Copy Share Image
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... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
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I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did… — Elizabeth Streb Copy Share Image
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences… — William James Copy Share Image
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We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
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