"In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all lived an elf. He was so tiny that no human eye could see him. He had a snug little room behind every petal of the rose. He was as well made and as perfect as any human child, and he had wings reaching from his shoulders to his feet. Oh, what a delicious scent there was in his room, and how lovely and transparent the walls were, for they were palest pink, rose petals."

-- Hans Christian Andersen

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“It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery.”

Source : Jean Hugard, Frederick Braué (2012). “Expert Card Technique”, p.573, Courier Corporation
“As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.”

Source : Lucan (1957). “Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars”
“I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.”

Source : "'I May Have Thought Too Much About the Game but That's Who I Was'". www.espncricinfo.com. July 9, 2012.
“I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.”
“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's becoming a day-to-day struggle between bears and bulls. Once oil and yields move to highs, the bears take advantage. Those are the twin dreadnoughts of the market. But earnings news has been strong and has kept bulls on top.”
“The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness caused by Marxism - and has returned him to the ancestral Germanic values of honor, loyalty and courage.”
“My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.”

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