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We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction.

a primitive mirror-on-a-stick bomb detector, the mascot of the third world.

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

huddled, whispering together at the railing that separated the gallery from the courtroom

to depict reality - that is as much an artistic vision as a scientific sensibility

The test of a good theory lies in its ability to explain the past, for only if it does can we trust what it may tell us about the future.

It's long been assumed that Machiavelli is in Hell and -worse- content to be there

In 1997, 39 people in the UK found themselves in hospital with tea-cosy-related injuries.

Robert Burns was never called Rabbie or Robbie—though he did occasionally call himself Spunkie.

There is no limit to a woman's intelligence provided she is not required to be coherent. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

If you thought "Rabbie Burns" wrote "Auld Lang Syne," you'd be doubly wrong. Burns never signed his name "Rabbie" or "Robbie" (or, indeed, "Bobbie" Burns, as some North Americans insist on calling him). His signatures included "Robert," "Robin," "Rab"—and, on at least one occasion, "Spunkie.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!

There have been conversations here in the United States about why every ex-President opens a library when politicians do not read the books. Hello, America! Kind of explains your politics. For me, reading saved me, it brought me back.

Man might defined as modern largely to the extent that he attempts to control, as opposed to adjust himself to, nature.

Capps's article appeared in the August 10, 1918, issue of JAMA.

In 1910 they distinguished between what they called "typical" pneumococci and "atypical" pneumococci.

Public health measures lack the drama of pulling someone back from the edge of death, but they save lives by the millions.

and in contrast to earlier stage of epidemic disease now affects many schoolchildren;

Remember this rule," advises Kahneman: "Intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.

forcing him to jump back and forth along the corridor in an almost physical demonstration of hypertext.

Sow a thought reap an action, sow an action reap a habit, sow a habit reap a destiny.

Writers come in two principal categories -- those who are overtly insecure and those who are covertly insecure.

Norman Maclean called A River Runs Through It fiction, and the word "fiction" appeared in the book's front matter. A River Runs Through It was autobiographical fact in nearly all aspects but one. For private reasons, the author had shifted the site of his brother's murder and, being Norman Maclean, considered that change and others quite enough fabrication to disqualify the text as nonfiction.

Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.