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There ought to be one day– just on…

17 Nov , 2014  

There ought to be one day– just one– when there is open season on senators. Great short quote and quotation by: Will Rogers , US humorist & showman (1879 – 1935)

Celia Thaxter

There shall be eternal summer in th…

17 Nov , 2014  

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. Great short quote and quotation by: Celia Thaxter ,

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Quran 2:263, Quran 2:263

There shall be no compulsion in rel…

17 Nov , 2014  

There shall be no compulsion in religion. Great short quote and quotation by: Quran 2:263, Quran 2:263 ,

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William Langland

There smites nothing so sharp, nor …

17 Nov , 2014  

There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame. Great short quote and quotation by: William Langland , English poet (1332 – 1400)

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Peter Sellers

There used to be a real me, but I h…

17 Nov , 2014  

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed. Great short quote and quotation by: Peter Sellers , English comic movie actor (1925 – 1980)

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Gregory Benford - Timescape

There was a blithe certainty that c…

17 Nov , 2014  

There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing […]

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Rebecca West

There was a definite process by whi…

17 Nov , 2014  

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. Great short quote and quotation by: Rebecca West , Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 – 1983)

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Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003

There was a disturbance in my heart…

17 Nov , 2014  

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger. Great short quote and quotation by: Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003 , US (Canadian-born) author (1915 – )

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William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

There was a star danced, and under …

17 Nov , 2014  

There was a star danced, and under that was I born. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

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Anatole Broyard

There was a time when we expected n…

17 Nov , 2014  

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. Great short quote and quotation by: Anatole Broyard ,

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There was never a genius without a …

17 Nov , 2014  

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. Great short quote and quotation by: Aristotle , Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

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