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"It should be a point for careful consideration, then, that with due consideration for perspective, lighting, etc., those clouds should be chosen for a landscape which, together with the landscape, wil…"

"No-one can be blithe or blase about the real impact on food producers in this country of leaving without a deal."

"In order to proceed with abstraction, the organism must be exposed to a sufficient number of events which contain the same factors. Only then is a person equipped to cope with the most frequent happen…"

"may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top."

"If a well were sunk at our feet in the midst of the city of Norwich, the diggers would very soon find themselves at work in that white substance almost too soft to be called rock, with which we are al…"

"We consider the capacity of the Syrian defensive forces as our own and believe that expansion of defensive ties would … help deal with threats of the enemies."

"Inferiority is always with us, and merciless scorn of it is the keynote of the military temper."

"G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense Produced by EWTN - Real Audio Archives include 28 Episodes with an overview and quotes of Chesterton."

"Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow."

"For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer."

"My dad knew I was going to be a comedian. When I was a baby, he said, 'Is this a joke?"

"Private Perkins is a funny little codger."

"Building castles in the air, 36 and making yourself a laughing-stock."

"Conceive of slaughter and flesh-eating in Eden."

"The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets …"

"I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest."

"Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child."

"A few years ago I had to answer some searching questions to a Customs official about a book which I had with me, printed in Latin, and which the official suspected to be Russian; it was a jestbook, as…"

"One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it."

"From the Radical table completed in this way, you will find with great exactness the logarithms of all sines between radius and the sine 45 degrees; from the arc of 45 degrees doubled, you will find t…"