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“And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?”
Source : William Allen BUTLER (1858). ““Two Millions”; and “Nothing to Wear.” Two poems”, p.82
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“Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.”
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“I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.”
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“For me, I learnt from jiu-jitsu and martial arts to be humble and to go forward in life in a positive way.”
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“The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you cracking to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other's hands.”
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“Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.”
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“The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.”
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“So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.”
Source : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.69, Beacon Press