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Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The sheer number of facts that are unknown about what happened when Malaysia 370 disappeared is quite staggering. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
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I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad.… — Martha Reeves Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
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. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Turkey Hollow is a small country town in Sullivan County, a remote region of the Catskill Mountains. Surrounded by forests, it counts… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
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When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one… — Mark Mobius Copy Share Image
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Any time you have someone's first-hand account of the sheer terror that ISIS can provoke... that's powerful. — Chuck Fleischmann Copy Share Image
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
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