"I began to see motorcyclists who had attached computer discs to their back mudflaps, because they made good reflectors. In a place called Xingwuying, locals climbed the Great Wall whenever they wanted to receive a cell phone signal."

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Source : Peter Hessler (2010). “Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip”, p.94, Canongate Books

Peter Hessler

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“These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.
“People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.”
“Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.”

Source : Fanny Crosby (1915). “Fanny Crosby's Story of Ninety-four Years”
“We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill not only thousands of people, as they did on September 11th, but hundreds of thousands of people. And that has changed the dimension of the threat we face.”
“I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.”
“How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.69
“beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade”

Source : William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”
“However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.”

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