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History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected…
— Don DeLillo
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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can…
— James Gleick
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Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do,…
— Terry Pratchett
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At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world…
— Thomas Friedman
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Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony:…
— Fumiko Enchi
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An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot…
— Gary Zukav
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I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink.…
— Steve Martin
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The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.
— Rick Riordan
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What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle…
— Carl Sagan
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Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in…
— Megan McCafferty
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Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what…
— Kelley Armstrong
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You two have to promise to be careful!" Sinead handed Amy a small plastic bag. "I made you a going-away present–a high-powered miniature smoke bomb.…
— Gordon Korman
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And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town." "You mean they aren't powered by giant hamsters on wheels? I was misinformed.
— Michael Grant
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Life at H.I.V.E. may have its attractions after all, Otto thought. Friends, as they say, may come and go, but high-powered laser weapons are forever.
— Mark Walden
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You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.
— Daniel Handler
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Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased,…
— Stephen Covey
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It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking…
— Anil Ambani
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There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone.
— Mark Z. Jacobson
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This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to…
— Seth Shostak
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