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- England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
- Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma.…
- Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes…
- A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you…
- Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of…
- Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their…
- I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my…
- 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…
- Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the…
- That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.
- It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields,…
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- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober… — Thomas Jefferson
- The angel brought you back." "Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for… — Cassandra Clare
- Sometimes I Dont Know Why I B0thered To Love When I Know For A Fact That It Will Always Be The Same… — Unknown Author
- It is difficult, it is pleasant. It is true, it is real. You will tell yourself this and many other things based… — Unkown
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong