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Ben Aaronovitch has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.
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What do you think you're doing?
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Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
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The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing…
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When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an…
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He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give…
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Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too…
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I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?
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The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an…
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Are they really gods?" "I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can breach the…
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You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale. "So magic…
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...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed…
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For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is…
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Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too…
— Ben Aaronovitch
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I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
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The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something…
— Herman Melville
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What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can…
— David Miliband
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Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that…
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