"A great nose may be an index Of a great soul"

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Source : Edmond Rostand (2000). “Cyrano De Bergerac”

Edmond Rostand

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“The world is one big data problem.”

Source : George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, Andrew McAfee (2014). “Leading Digital: Turning Technology Into Business Transformation”, p.5, Harvard Business Press
“The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations to be burdened by it all. But the welter of wonderfulness that was their heritage seemed to have been a boon, one that buoyed them up so that each child seems not only to have stood on the shoulders of giants but also to have danced on them.”

Source : Eric Metaxas (2011). “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc
“For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.”

Source : "Haitink lays down operatic baton on his 75th birthday". Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2004.
“My gaze flew to him once more,noting the cigarette he set down even as he exhaled a long plume of white."Why are you lying there smoking while I'm chained to a wall?"I demanded.The look he gave me was a mixture of relief and cynicism."Since it seems you don't remember anything about the past two days,let me assure you,luv-I earned that smoke.”
“If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.”

Source : M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.406, OUP Oxford
“It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.”
“I used to not be into the fancy ones. I used to eat goo balls all the time.”

Source : Source: www.bonappetit.com

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