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You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !
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There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
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Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of…
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Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's…
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It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with.…
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Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a…
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Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many…
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Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire'…
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
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Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
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A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create…
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Things have no power that humans don't put there.
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
— Susan Sontag
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a…
— Oscar Wilde
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This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split…
— Robert E. Ornstein
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern…
— Feist
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything…
— F L Lucas
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The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.
— Irving Howe
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We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people…
— William Butler Yeats
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The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has…
— Terry Pratchett
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I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature…
— Vladimir Putin
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I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
— Harold Pinter
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Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
— Helen Vendler
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