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• The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's project, is forced either to drink water containing poisonous residues or to pay our tax money for treatment of the water to remove the poisons - treatments that are by no means foolproof.

  Rachel Carson

  Mean, Water, Community

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• Hace poco encontré en una librería londinense un viejo volumen que contenía los Poetas Menores griegos, y fue un placer volver a leer sólo las palabras Orfeo, Lino, Museo, esos débiles sonidos poéticos y ecos de un nombre, que se extinguen en los oídos de nosotros, los hombres modernos; y esos sonidos apenas más sustanciales, Mimnermo, Ibioco, Alqueo, Estesícoro, Menandro. No vivieron en vano. Podemos conversar con estos famosos sin cuerpo, sin reservas ni personalidad.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hombres, Ecos, Nombres

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). "Lo más vivo es lo más salvaje - Las obras completas de Thoreau sobre la vida en armonía con la naturaleza: Walden, Caminando, Noche y luz de luna, La luz de las tierras altas, Un paseo invernal, Los bosques de Maine, Un paseo a Wachusett, El terrateniente, Una semana en los ríos Concord y Merrimack, Tintes otoñales, Manzanas silvestres...", p.393, e-artnow

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• She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.

  A. S. Byatt

  Estrellas, Oscuridad, Luna

  A.S. Byatt (2011). “Ragnarok: the End of the Gods”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• Si la caída del hombre consiste en la separación de dios y el diablo la serpiente debió aparecer de en medio de la manzana cuando Eva mordió como el gusano original en ella, partiéndola por la mitad y separando todo lo que antes era uno en un par de opuestos, así que el mundo es el arca de Noé en el mar de la eternidad que contiene todos los pares interminables de cosas, irreconciliables e inseparables, y el calor siempre anhelará el frío y la espalda por el frente y las sonrisas por las lágrimas y el chucho por jeff y el no por el sí con la nostalgia más indecible que existe.

  Diane Arbus

  Otoño, Hombres, Mar

  Diane Arbus (2003). "Diane Arbus: revelaciones", Random House (NY)

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• The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Fall, Sleep, Views

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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• La primera pregunta que solemos hacer a los padres primerizos es : "¿Es niño o niña?". Hay una gran respuesta a esa que circula por ahí : "No lo sabemos ; aún no nos lo ha dicho". Personalmente, creo que ninguna pregunta que contenga "o lo uno o lo otro" merece una respuesta seria, y eso incluye la cuestión del sexo.

  Kate Bornstein

  Chicas, Chicos, Pensar

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.56, Routledge

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• Ustedes, los cristianos, se ocupan de un documento que contiene dinamita suficiente para hacer saltar en pedazos toda la civilización, poner el mundo patas arriba y traer la paz a un planeta devastado por las batallas. Pero lo tratan como si no fuera más que literatura.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Peace, Biblical

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• Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

  Terry Pratchett

  Years, Magic, Unseen

  "The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel".

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• Well, either you have a compartment under this floor, containing a living person, or the property is infested by giant moles

  Kelley Armstrong

  Giants, Moles, Wells

  Kelley Armstrong (2011). “Spell Bound”, p.231, Random House Canada

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• Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.

  Ernest Gellner

  Men, Play, Different

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• El vino es un líquido vivo que no contiene conservantes. Su ciclo vital comprende la juventud, la madurez, la vejez y la muerte. Si no se trata con un respeto razonable, enferma y muere.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Maturity, Age

  Julia Child "Dominando el arte de la cocina francesa", Рипол Классик

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• We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Relationship, Believe, Book

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Nov 01, 2015

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• The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Autumn, Past

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• La Historia, se percibe fácilmente, es una pinacoteca que contiene multitud de copias y muy pocos originales.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Anfitrión, Galería, Copias

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2013). "El Antiguo Régimen y la Revolución: La controvertida guía superventas sobre los orígenes de la Revolución Francesa", p.100, Harriman House Limited.

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• A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Interesting, Stories

  'Night and Day' (1978) act 1

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• Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

  Winston Churchill

  Russia, Cities, Water

  Winston Churchill (1987). "El Irreprimible Churchill: Historias, dichos e impresiones de Sir Winston Churchill", Londres : Robson Books

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• Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals that end up on our breakfast, lunch, and dinner plates, however, aren't those who normally eat other animals. The animals we exploit for food are not the lions and tigers and bears of the world. For the most part, we eat the gentle vegan animals. However, on today's farms, we actually force them to become meat eaters by making them eat feed containing the rendered remains of other animals, which they would never eat in the wild.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Meat Eating, Lunch

  "Sharon Gannon sobre el veganismo". jivamuktiyoga.com. 16 de noviembre de 2016.

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• Yet in a kingdom containing seven constituent parts, which is upheld like the triple staff ,of an ascetic , there is no ,single part more important ,than the others , by reason of the importance of the qualities of each for the others.

  Gurú Nanak

  Important, Quality, Asceticism

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• Podemos pensar que la mente contiene carretes y carretes de películas sobre nuestras experiencias pasadas. Estas imágenes se superponen no sólo unas a otras, sino también a la lente a través de la cual experimentamos el presente.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Past, Mind, Experience

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.42, Celestial Arts

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• On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae. The homogeneity assumption may then be put in the form: An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.

  Hermann Bondi

  Moving, Science, Numbers

  "Review of Cosmology," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, p. 107-8, 1948.

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• I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

  José Stalin

  Military, Men, Mind

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• I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Book, Struggle, School

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• We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Agreement, Violence, Welcome

  "Concluding Speech Following the Discussion on the Report of Peace (October 26/November 8, 1917)". Collected Works, Volume 26, www.marxists.org.

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• You can now buy a pack of beer containing 99 cans. A 99-can pack of beer. Who says America has lost its competitive edge?

  David Letterman

  Beer, America, Lost

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• El vacío es y sigue siendo un espacio matemático. Un cubo colocado en el vacío no desplazaría nada, ya que desplazaría aire o agua en un espacio que ya contiene esos fluidos.

  Roger Bacon

  Air, Space, Water

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