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Thaw! The last word in stolentelling! (424.35)

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• When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Terrible
  • Accident

• I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Love

• Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Inside
  • Size
  • Glass

• School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Still
  • Surviving
  • Greeks

• And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Order
  • Now
  • Events

• Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • America
  • High

• It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• 'Touch'

  

  Octavio Paz

• Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • God
  • Faith

• I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man’s accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.

  

  Jack Vance
  • History
  • True

• 'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Small

• I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Action

• I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

  

  Alice Walker
  • People
  • Done
  • Home

• The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People

• There is no doubt One.Tel was a terrible investment and something that I regret greatly.

  

  James Packer
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• Without passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Energy
  • Passion

• I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

  

  Edward Felten

• Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Listening

• I met a lot of label people at the start of doing this music thing, and I just realised soon that it wasn't much about music but more so about their paycheck at the end of the day.

  

  Rex Orange County
  • Music
  • Start
  • Much

• Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day. Doesn't Rush Limbaugh remind you of one of those gay guys that like to lie in a tub while other guys pee on him?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Gay
  • Satan

• It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

  

  Fred F. Fielding
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Political

• Thaw! The last word in stolentelling! (424.35)

  

  James Joyce