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“Among the many thousands of things that I have never been able to understand, one in particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said, "You know, I bet if we took some of this and mixed it with a little potash and heated it, we could make a material that would be solid and yet transparent. We could call it glass." Call me obtuse, but you could stand me on a beach till the end of time and never would it occur to me to try to make it into windows.”
Bill Bryson
“Each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens.”
William Shakespeare
“I don't feel any particular pressure to be the cute one. That's Dominic's territory.”
Wentworth Miller
“People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls-poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.”
Carroll O'Connor
“He has managed to capture the particular aura that made even the poet's more mundane activities-of which there were many-fascinatingly boring, so to speak, rather than merely boringly boring.”
John Gross
“Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.”
Christina Baldwin
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
James Truslow Adams
“They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.”
Chinua Achebe
“I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.”
Calista Flockhart
“The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.”
Edward Gibbon
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