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“From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.”

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“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched…

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“From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built…

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“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of…

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“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he…

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Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this…

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As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not…

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Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

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I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

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Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

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