"Magic doesn't happen often - not once in a blue moon ... I expect there isn't another magic ship like this one in the whole world."

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Source : "The Ship that Flew" by Hilda Lewis, (Ch. 2), 1939.

Hilda Lewis

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“The above proposition is occasionally useful.”
“When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 20, 2010
“Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body's now a speck, a speck from long before I was born, a speck that is melting into nature herself.”
“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.”

Source : "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 7), November 1942.
“It's all a part of this world where we're all kind of mixing a lot, andâ€¦ in that way we're all a bit confused about who we are, where we belong, where's home, and â€¦ who is important to usâ€¦”

Source : "Kalki Koechlin - That Girl in Yellow Boots". myETVmedia Interview with Olivia Bannock at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 28, 2010.
“There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.”
“I spent time on set in New York and Berlin sitting next to Steven Spielberg while he worked, which was the biggest thrill of my life.”
“Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative in that it charts a life divided between England and Sudan. Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translationdoes the original justice.”

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