“This is a smashing place, isn't it? But I must say it scares me a bit. Do you suppose one dares to ask for tea?'
'I expect so, though heaven knows how. Perhaps you blow a peal on a slughorn, or beat on your shield with your sword -- or, I'll tell you what, if you look around you'll find a long embroidered tassel, and if you pull it you'll hear a bell clanging hollowly in some dark corridor a million miles away, and then some bent old servitor will come shuffling in--'
'There's a telephone by the bed,' said Timothy.
'Good heavens, so there is. How disappointing.”
― Airs Above the Ground
'I expect so, though heaven knows how. Perhaps you blow a peal on a slughorn, or beat on your shield with your sword -- or, I'll tell you what, if you look around you'll find a long embroidered tassel, and if you pull it you'll hear a bell clanging hollowly in some dark corridor a million miles away, and then some bent old servitor will come shuffling in--'
'There's a telephone by the bed,' said Timothy.
'Good heavens, so there is. How disappointing.”
― Airs Above the Ground
“Androids with Artificial Intelligence have no heart or soul. They will make our perfect masters.”
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“The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“Reader's Digest ran articles by Corell advising women that a husband should not be induced by an oversexed wife to perform a sexual act.”
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“Don’t anticipate outcome,” the man said. “Await the unfolding of events. Remain in the moment.”
― All Tomorrow's Parties
― All Tomorrow's Parties
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