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“What did it matter what she wrote about a dead Swedish girl, when people in other parts of the world did nothing but kill each other?”
― Studio sex
― Studio sex
“The third oddity was the surface on which Lawrence was doing his own succussion. It was a huge, black leather-bound King James Bible. Having done three raps on the Bible, his fist clenched around a vial containing a homeopathic remedy made from amethyst, Lawrence looked up. His face said, "I wish you hadn't seen that".
"You don't have to use a Bible," he assured me.”
― 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
"You don't have to use a Bible," he assured me.”
― 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
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“The definitive study of the herd instincts of astronomers has yet to be written, Fernie said, but there are times when we resemble nothing so much as a herd of antelope, heads down in tight formation, thundering with firm determination in a particular direction across the plain. At a given signal from the leader we whirl about, and, with equally firm determination, thunder off in quite a different direction, still in tight parallel formation.
(quoting an observation made by astronomer J. Donal Fernie)”
― 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
(quoting an observation made by astronomer J. Donal Fernie)”
― 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
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