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- As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How… — Anne Carson
- If you subscribe to the idea that #‎ addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children… — David Sheff
- Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests… — Leonard Cohen
- The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry… — Origen
- The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea… — Robert Ballard
- Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see… — James Jeans
- I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to… — Charles Lyell
- No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime… — Colin Greenwood