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“Turner sounded his foghorn three times, the “Sailor’s Farewell.”
― Anonymous

“A man aboard one of the warships took a photograph, believed to be the last ever taken of the Lusitania,”
― Anonymous

“The reporters, among them the Evening Mail’s Jack Lawrence, also brought along a good deal of alcohol, or, as Lawrence put it, “liquid sustenance.”
― Anonymous

“the gap between theory and practice,”
― Anonymous

“Too much polysyndeton.* Watch it!”
― Anonymous

“She had the rare combination of being quiet and popular,”
― Anonymous

“trying to map the brain has often been called “cartography for fools.”
― Anonymous

“No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.”
― Jacques Derrida

“how can I say 'I love you', if I know the love is you .. the word 'love' either as a verb or a noun would be destroyed in front of you”
― Jacques Derrida

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner