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THERE IS A GAS LEAK IN THE BASEMENT OF THE SCHOOL. THERE IS NO NEED TO PANIC. IT IS JUST A GAS LEAK WHICH MAY… — Jaclyn Moriarty
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell… — Tennessee Williams
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the… — Elisabeth Elliot
Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1… — Bill Bryson
It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second,… — Richard Dawkins
The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost… — Jonathan Safran Foer
some of my happiest funniest times have been spent in offices. Perhaps because the work was mudane, even the tiniest of distractions become wildly hilarious… — Miranda Hart
There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that,… — Richard Dawkins
What hapÂpens to me if this slipÂper fits?" "I turn you into a handÂsome frog. — Judith McNaught
The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the… — Philip Sington
If we're doing this for ten hours, I'm going to need a little incentive to stay motivated." Patch hooked his elbow around my neck and… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding. — Susan Cain
Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day. — Jasper Fforde
Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile. — Khaled Hosseini
The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't… — A. J. Jacobs
Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible… — Leo Buscaglia
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might… — Christiaan Barnard
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. — H. L. Mencken
Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters. — Jerry Seinfeld
Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence. — Lauren Hutton

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