"When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none."

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Source : Margaret Millar (1942). “The weak-eyed bat”, Published for The Crime club by Doubleday, Doran

Margaret Millar

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“Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.”
“Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.”
“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”

Source : "Can A Smart Person Believe in God?". Book by Michael Guillen, Chapter 7: "Hope Springs Eternal," p. 90, 2004.
“Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.”
“Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.”
“Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.”
“If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.”
“Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.”

Source : Jeff Corwin (2009). “100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species”, p.15, Rodale

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