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- Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a…
- English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language…
- It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it…
- There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because…
- 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 ancient…
- As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready…
- If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain…
- Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be…
- And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any…
- Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing…
- So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no…
- Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We…
- When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth…
- Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent…
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- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees. — Lance Armstrong
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is… — Mary Kay Ash