"The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next."

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Source : "Hiroshima".

John Hersey

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“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”
“Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.”

Source : Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H. G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791”, p.423
“I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.”
“I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.”
“I've seen optimism because I grew up in communities of recovery where people put their lives back together and find tomorrows that they didn't think would be there. That fundamentally changed my life and is so much of where my hope comes from.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“The mistakes we make as investors is when the market's going up, we think it's going to go up forever. When the market goes down, we think it's going to go down forever. Neither of those things actually happen. Doesn't do anything forever. It's by the moment.”
“If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time.”
“On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.”

Source : "Kerry: Bush uses terrorism threat for campaign" by Mike Rosell, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2004.

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