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“London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches.”
Source : Soseki Natsume (2011). “Spring Miscellany: And London Essays”, p.114, Tuttle Publishing
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“I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.”
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“Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.”
Source : Song: Sweet Caroline
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“Upon my lips the breath of song, Within my heart a rhyme, Howe'er time trips or lags along, I keep abreast with time!”
Source : Clinton Scollard (1916). “Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic”
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“Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.”
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“Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand”
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“Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles, airplanes, rockets, nuclear weapons, satellites, or space exploration. There's a lot they didn't know about. It would be interesting to see what kind of document they'd draft today. Just keeping it frozen in time won't hack it.”
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“Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.”