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“Are you watching me sleep?' 'Not now. I was a few minutes ago,' he admitted, one side of his lips curving up. 'Now, I'm talking to you.' 'That's creepy,' I murmured. 'The watching me while I sleep part.' 'Possibly.' 'You have no shame.”

Book:A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

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“The latest element to turn up is called plutonium--which is Disney with a touch of mineral water. The word uranium had a mighty sound, a solemn sound, an awful sound. Plutonium is a belly laugh. Plutonium, incidentally, is not known in the stars; the stars are too high-minded. Plutonium is a mouthwash used by Mandrake. Plutonium is just something belonging to the comical race of people who started their first atomic fire under a football stadium.”

Humor Comedy Elements Atomic Energy Plutonium Atomic Weapons Atomic Power

Book:The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters

Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters

“People are shopping these days. The stores are crowded. Buyers are intent but not gay. The news of the atomic bomb came as a terrible shock to everybody, and the easiest way to take your mind off it is to buy things.”

Stores Buying Shopping Nuclear Weapons Consumerism Atomic Bomb Atomic Weapons Nuvlear Bomb

Book:The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters

Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters

“The only condition more appalling, less practical, than world government is the lack of it in this atomic age. Most of the scientists who produced the bomb admit that. Nationalism and the split atom cannot coexist in the planet.”

Government Nationalism Nuclear Weapons World Government Atomic Weapons Atomic Age Nuclear Age

Book:The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters

Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters

“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him." [An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]”

Realism Presence Novels Characters Dickens Larger Than Life Sherlock Holmes

Author:Rex Stout

“It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.”

Personality Ambition Biography Larger Than Life Winston Churchill

Book:Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“Stop opposing the truths.The truth is truth no matter how you take it. It is not going to be changed for your inconvenience.”

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Author:Bikash Bhandari

“Acı geçmişi düşünmemeli, gelecek için endişe etmemeli, dışardaki yaşamımla ilgili şeylere takılmamalı ayrıca acılarıma ve semptomlarıma da kafayı takmamalıydım.”

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Book:You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

Source: You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

“Before picking fights, learn to assess your opponents.”

Wisdom Battle Experience Fight Prudence Opponent Oppose Assess Yourself

Book:Galaxy Pirates

Source: Galaxy Pirates

“Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.”

Expression Intentions Motives Oppose

Book:Voice of Reason

Source: Voice of Reason

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