"He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it."

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Source : Colin Cotterill (2014). “The Coroner's Lunch”, p.79, Open Road Media

Colin Cotterill

#Memories Quotes #Hands Quotes #Years Quotes

“Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.”
“I loved musicals, love them still. But also, I'm really inspired by comedy music.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”

Source : "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist". Book by Richard Feynman, 1999.
“In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.”
“A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.”
“We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.”
“Youâ€™re a dead man,â€ Kyle said. â€œWarren doesnâ€™t take kindly to people who hurt me.”
“It [our best show] was this year, the 7th of January in Eilat, Israel; 6,000 people in the desert going absolutely mad!”

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