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“VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI.
By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Universe.”
― V for Vendetta #2
By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Universe.”
― V for Vendetta #2
“دائما مايردد راكبو الأمواج"هنالك دوما موجة تاليه" ولكن مالم تهرع صوب الموجه وتحتل متنها أولا، فسوف يتم تنحيتك جانبا.”
― Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
― Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
“It’s a bit burned,” my mother would say apologetically at every meal, presenting you with a piece of meat that looked like something — a much-loved pet perhaps — salvaged from a tragic house fire. “But I think I scraped off most of the burned part,” she would add, overlooking that this included every bit of it that had once been flesh.
Happily, all this suited my father. His palate only responded to two tastes - burned and ice cream — so everything suited him so long as it was sufficiently dark and not too startlingly flavorful. Theirs truly was a marriage made in heaven, for no one could burn food like my mother or eat it like my dad.”
― The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Happily, all this suited my father. His palate only responded to two tastes - burned and ice cream — so everything suited him so long as it was sufficiently dark and not too startlingly flavorful. Theirs truly was a marriage made in heaven, for no one could burn food like my mother or eat it like my dad.”
― The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
“And when that happens, I know it. A message saying so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had already received, severing from me an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a kite on a broken string. That is why, walking across a school campus on this particular December morning, I keep searching the sky. As if I expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying towards heaven.”
― A Christmas Memory
― A Christmas Memory
“The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.”
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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