"In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier……" — Bill Bryson

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• Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. — Margaret Atwood
• I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody… — Margaret Atwood
• The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest… — Joe Baca
• A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side -… — Drew Barrymore
• According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is… — Melody Beattie
• As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of… — Bob Beauprez
• When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you… — James Belushi
• Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. — John Berger
• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse… — Daniel Berrigan
• Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
• If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. — Theodor Adorno
• But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and… — Julie Bishop

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