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The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.
Source: On the forthcoming London Olympic Games. Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2012. -
The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
Source: Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII, Ultimate Uses of the Stored Uni -
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.
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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ''Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.'' The Greek said, ''All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.''
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The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
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The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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The law always limits every power it gives.
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
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The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
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