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“Seen under the microscope, Stegomyia is a creature of striking beauty. Its general color is dark gray, but the thorax is marked with a silvery-white lyre-shaped pattern; the abdomen is banded with silvery-white stripes and the six-jointed legs are striped alternately with black and pure white. Among mosquitoes Stegomyia is the height of elegance.”
― The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
― The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“we attract what is happening in our lives”
― The Secret
― The Secret
“She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.”
― The Selection
― The Selection
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