"Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine."

-- Pierre Loti

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“Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.”
“But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.”
“I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.”
“We drilled in the right place - we were simply 30 million years too late”
“The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.”
“It took me a while to realize that's just your body preparing you to do something.”
“I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.”

Source : Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.”

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