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“Kami said, "I want you to go in there and vamp that receptionist." "What?" Ash said blankly. "You know," Kami said. "Dazzle her with your charms. Rock her world. Go on." [...] "What," Ash said, "all of us?" "Do you want to stand around trying to guess if she likes pretty boys or rough trade?" Jared asked, gesturing lazily from Ash to himself. "Excuse me, what did you just call yourself?" Ash demanded. "No, wait a second, I don't care. What did you just call me?”
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“When you get wet, it usually means something good.”
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“Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.”
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“Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.”
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“I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.”
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“I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.”
Source : Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.9, Routledge
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“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”
Source : Ann Rule (2013). “A Rose For Her Grave: And Other True Cases”, p.84, Planet Ann Rule, LLC
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“The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?”
Source : "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("Tiruvazhundur Sivakozhundu"), 1999.