#sharp

I'm a girl." When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. "Indeed," she said. Deryn's mouth feel open. "You mean you...Did you barking know?" "I had no idea at all. But I make it a policy never to appear surprised." Dr. Barlow sighed, staring out the window. "Though on this occasion, it is proving rather more demanding than usual. A girl, you say? And you're quite certain? ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#certainty #deryn #girl #goliath #leviathant

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#anger #being #brigade #even #fought

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#differs #epistemological #experiment #indeed #naive

Sharpton is not even on the Presidential primary ballot here in Louisiana. ↗

— Tony Brown

#even #here #louisiana #presidential #primary

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#balance #before #britain #cards #case

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. ↗

— Walter Pater

#bury #calling #experience #external #external objects

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#lost #otherwise #pleasures #sharpens #small

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. ↗

— William Drummond

#scholar #sharpens

Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off. ↗

— Stephanie Rice

#get #need #off #pain #sharp