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defuse
Incorrect word! One doesn’t “diffuse” a bomb, unless of course one dices it into tiny pieces and scatters it about. One “defuses” an explosive.
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.”
― Beauty
― Beauty
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
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