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certainty. The urge to switch from subjunctive to indicative is, to paraphrase Alastair Fowler, always a powerful

passed a public library and impulsively popped in to ask if they had any information on Centralia.

A lot of people conclude from this that the FBI and its agents are dangerously inept.

am not at all sure how we should tackle such a crisis, but on the basis of what we know so far, I would suggest, as a start, quarantining Texas. I

Give them a form of transportation that was becoming obsolete in the time of Clement Attlee and they will flock to

the only thing special about the elements that make you is that they make you. That is the miracle of life.

and do you know the difference, by the way, between village and hamlet? It's quite simple, really: One is a place where people live and the other is a play by Shakespeare)

There is something in what he said. English is a merry confusion of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense.

who had drowned in Greece nearly thirty years before.

Brian Aldiss

And as you are about to see, it not only produces the best science, but also some of the very best science writing.

In 1906 he and Hulda made the first of several trips to London to sift through the records.

Shakespeare, it appears, was caught up in the affair because he had been a lodger in Mountjoy's house in Cripplegate in 1604 when the dispute arose.

his facetious grace in writing," and much else.

this guy ever had an unselfish thought, as my mama would say, it would die of loneliness.

approval from the Senate four years

I have a gigantic pain in my ass," I say. "Can you look and see if the Speaker of the House is up there?

Savagery in the quest for power is older than the Bible, but some of my opponents really hate my guts.

Oh, and stay out of our elections. After I speak tomorrow, you'll have all you can handle to keep rigging your own.

Headed for the exit," she hears through the earbud. "Teams 1 and 2, go," she says. "Team 3, hold ready." "Team 1, that's a go," comes the response. "Team 2, that's a go." "Team 3 holding ready.

Office, and Sam's is to go back to her first

It's easy to feel powerless in the face of a problem as big as climate change. But you're not powerless.

The typewriter racket was our song of hope.

I don't think Jesus is any more laissez-faire today than he was when he walked this earth in human flesh.