Quotes with grabs

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• All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.

  Bee Wilson
  British food writer, journalist and historian
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• Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

  Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.

  Het leven van Pi p.18

  Yann Martel
  Canadian author (1963 - )
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• There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
  

  Samuel Beckett
  Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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• We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

  Ang Lee
  Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• astonishingly
• relationships
• fascination
• possessive
• importance
• charlatan

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