Time Shelter
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what decade would you choose—the sixties, the seventies, or the eighties? She fell silent for a moment and gave the best answer that can be given to such a question: I’d like to be twelve years old in each of them. That would be my answer,
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“Would you rather be stung by a thousand wasps or sleep in the pigpen? Answer one or the other! You have to answer one or the other. Grownup versions may be more sophisticated, as, Are you a Democrat or a Republican? The”
― I'm OK, You're OK
― I'm OK, You're OK
“Too much information? No, it’s more like the more you know, the more you wonder.”
― Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils
― Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils
“Where the French built their own boats and bridges, the Austrians complained that none were to be found.”
― Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs Volume III: Wagram and Znaim
― Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs Volume III: Wagram and Znaim
“The human spirit inclines readily toward heresy, arguing against imposed doctrine and challenging the institution that prescribes it.”
― The Middle Ages
― The Middle Ages
“In the hundred and fifty years before the great visitation of 1665 there were only a dozen years when London was free from plague.”
― Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
― Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
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