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“Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.”
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“Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.”
Source : Oliver Lodge (2012). “Past Years: An Autobiography”, p.306, Cambridge University Press
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“An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm which could be removed by no medicines, and which was at last succeeded by a perfect palsy of the whole arm. . . . He learned to write with his left hand, which was soon thereafter seized with the same disorder.”
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“Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.”
Source : "The Complete Gale Norton Interview". Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004. 
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“I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love to heal wounds and transform lives.”
Source : Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.
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“I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable.”
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“An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.”
Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.156, University of Chicago Press
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“FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands, beats egg white under her words and the whole thing rises like a dream. It's a love story for her people and for a time and place. Read it.”
