#once

I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

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In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.' ↗

— Billy Boyd

#crowe #fact #go #guitar #had

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#coincidence #concentration #writing #experience

Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#blood #concentrated #effective #serum #shock

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#automobile #could #destroy #did #many

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#between #biggest #biggest difference #concerned #difference

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#authority #guessed #leading #more #once

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#concerning #exchange #geneva #ideas #itself

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#conception #else #nothing #speech #than

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#ancestors #broad #cities #civilization #efforts