"I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction."

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Jessa Crispin

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“The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.”

Source : Smithsonian Institution, James Smithson (1966). “Knowledge Among Men: Eleven Essays on Science, Culture, and Society Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of James Smithson”
“Bad Girl!" She chided. "I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said. "Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future.”
“In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.”
“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”

Source : In Guardian 5 June 1963
“The digital premium business content model is broken and we should all be taking appropriate steps now to ensure the viability of this business is preserved by other means.”
“I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.”
“"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.”
“Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world.”

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