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There is a little Juliet inside me, hoping I will lock eyes with my Romeo on the other side of a fish tank or through a gap in a library bookcase. Hell, even if it's behind the condiments section in a supermarket. I don't really mind.


Jessica Thompson


#love-story #lovers #love

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.


Rose Tremain


#difficult #each #every #exciting #i

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.


Mike Myers


#factory #mom #office #sold #worked

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.


Ralph A. Cram


#cumulative #democracy #education #history #inheritance

waste-not want-not. i am not wasted, what do i want?


Margaret Atwood


#true-story #religion

Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and immediacy of the present crowds out the echoes and lessons of the past. It would be a shame if that were to happen with respect to the fur trade. It is a seminal part of who we are as a nation, and how we came to be.


Eric Jay Dolin


#astor #beaver #buffalo #fur #fur-trade

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.


Desmond Seward


#german #history #knights #monk #war

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?


Dan Brown


#culture

Escherichia colia O157:H7 is a relatively new strain of the common intestinal bacteria (no one had seen it before 1980) that thrives in feedlot cattle, 40 percent of which carry it in their gut. Ingesting as few as ten of these microbes can cause a fatal infection; they produce a toxin that destroys human kidneys.


Michael Pollan


#cattle #factory-farming #feedlots #nature

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.


Neale Donald Walsch


#conflicts #device #eliminate #entire #found






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