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When you feel bad about yourself you reverse your magnet and repel people....
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I have just about all I can take of myself....
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Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!...
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The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit....
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. - The Friends of Voltaire....
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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa ( July 18 , 1906 – February 27 , 1992 ) was a Canadian-born American academic and political figure. He was an English professor, served as president of San Francisco State University and then a United States Senato...
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S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) was probably the funniest American writer of the 20th century. He was a master of word-play and a cultural parodist without equal. S. J. Perelman was once described in these graphic terms: Under a forehead roughl...
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S. J. Simon (Seca Jascha Skidelsky, 1904 - 1948) was a British bridge player and comic writer, noted for his collaboration with Caryl Brahms . Sourced The Acol bidding system Terence Reese and David Bird, Acol in the 90s, Robert Hale, 1990...
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Since his first novel was published in 1985, S. M. Stirling has established himself as an author adept at writing along the broad generic spectrum that includes science fiction and fantasy. With significant works in fantasy, military scien...
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The S-matrix is a quantity related to the probability of events occurring in quantum mechanical scattering processes. In scattering, two or more particles collide, and the resulting mass-energy can be converted to other particles. The part...
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Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by God to adapt to deserts made by treekilling human beings The animal made by human commitee had pickled pigs' feet .. the pigs now had no feet...
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As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past. ...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male is essentiall...
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The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good rel...
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To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question....
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Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life....
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S. E. Hinton's young adult novels are among the best-selling books of all time and continue to be popular with adolescent readers a generation after she wrote them. Her books, especially The Outsiders (1967), continue to be assigned readin...
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Myriad-minded: to those who knew S. Foster Damon as a friend and colleague, that felicitous Coleridgean adjective best describes a man whose kaleidoscopic talents and interests--William Blake, cooking, Punch and Judy, fencing, book collect...
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Samuel Nathaniel Behrman ranks as one of the most distinguished writers of sophisticated comedy at a time when the American theatre reached its highest point of urbanity and productivity. With only two solo efforts mounted for Broadway, Be...
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The pH scale, invented by Soren Peter Lauritz Sorensen, "has become so much a part of scientific literature and its influence so important a factor in considering biological problems that one wonders how theories of acidity and alkalinity ...
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S. R. Ranganathan is considered by many to be the foremost theorist in the field of classification because of his contributions to the theory of facet analysis. In addition to being known as the "Father of Library Science" in...
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Samuel Sidney McClure (1857-1949) created the first literary syndicate and developed "muckraking," which established him as one of America's notable editors. Born in County Antrim, Ireland, on Feb. 17, 1857, S. S. McClure was taken to the ...
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The "Golden Age" of the detective novel is generally considered to have been the years between World Wars I and II. S. S. Van Dine's first Philo Vance detective novel, The Benson Murder Case (1926), is often cited as t...
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SAAB AB is an aviation, defence and car manufacturing company based in Sweden. Its name is an acronym for "Svenska aeroplan aktiebolaget" (Swedish Aeroplane Limited). Sourced Saab car slogans Welcome to the State of Independence USA campai...
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Saad Zaghlul Pasha (1859-1927), Egyptian political leader, founded the country's most important political party, the Wafd. Saad Zaghlul was born in Ibyana, a village in the province of Gharbiyyah in the Egyptian Delta, of pure Egyptian par...
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(1912–1955), Indian writer. Saadat Hasan Manto, the much acclaimed and controversial South Asian Muslim literary figure, was born in Sambrala, in the Ludhiana district of the Punjab. As a young man, Manto began his literary career ...
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The Persian poet Sa'di (ca. 1200-ca. 1291) was the author of the classic literary works Bustan (translated as The Orchard) and Gulistan (translated as The Rose Garden). Moralistic books that contain teachings and stories on love, religion,...
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The Jewish scholar Saadia ben Joseph al-Fayumi (882-942) ranks as the most important medieval Jewish scholar of literature and history. Little is known of the early life of Saadia ben Joseph except that he was born in Egypt, lived for some...
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SAʿADYAH GAON (882–942), properly Saʿadyah ben Yosef al-Fayyumī, was a Jewish theologian, jurist, scholar, and gaon ("head, eminence") of the rabbinic academy at Sura, Babylonia. Saʿadyah wa...
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SOURCE: Ward, Thomas. “Nature and Civilization in Sab and the Nineteenth-Century Novel in Latin America.” Hispanofila 126 (May 1999): 25-40. In the following essay, Ward posits connections between the depictions of nature and the charac...
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(2000 est. pop. 2.4 million). Sabah is a Malaysian state on the northern part of the island of Borneo, bordered by Indonesia in the south, Sarawak in the west, and the Philippines in the east. Its coastline includes the South China Sea, th...
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The Sabah Dispute was a twenty-five-year territorial wrangle between the Republic of the Philippines and the Federation of Malaysia over territory in the northern part of the island of Borneo. The Philippines' claim was based on a h...
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SABAZIOS, a god of the Thracians and the Phrygians, is also known from Greek and Latin sources as Sabadios, Sauazios, Saazios, Sabos, Sebazios, Sabadius, and Sebadius. His name is related to the Macedonian word sauâdai, or saû...
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The Jewish mystic and pseudo-Messiah Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), or Sebi, was the founder of the Sabbatean sect. Sabbatai Zevi was born in Smyrna (modern Izmir), Turkey, of Spanish-Jewish parentage. At an early age he adopted the mysticism ...
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On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of B...
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Sabbath's Theater (1995, ISBN 0-679-77259-6) is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath. It won the National Book Award for fiction in 1995. Sabbath is an unproductive, out-of-work, former puppeteer with a st...
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In the 1943 Goodspeed (Boston) reprint of the first volume of Charles Evans's American Bibliography Lawrence C. Wroth writes that "One notable difference between our day in the book world and the old days of the nineteenth and early twenti...
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Of the many books by Sabine Baring-Gould, only six are collections of short fiction, not counting his volumes of fairy tales and other stories for children. He wrote far more novels (around thirty-five) and more than twenty guide books and...
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Sabine R. Ulibarrí is a short-story writer, a poet, an essayist, a critic, and a university professor who ranks among the best known of today's Chicano writers. He has received both popular and critical recognition for his literary ...
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Sabra Elise Johnson (born 1987-07-29 ) is an American dancer from Roy, Utah and the reigning champion and first female winner of the Fox reality television show So You Think You Can Dance . She was born in the Netherlands, spent nine years...
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The Sabri Brothers are a Pakistani qawwali (Sufi devotional music) group founded by brothers Haji Ghulam Farid Sabri (1930–1994) and Haji Maqbool Ahmed Sabri (b. 1945). Descended from a line of qawwali singers in northern India, the...
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Sabriel is a fantasy novel by Garth Nix, first published in 1995. It is the first in his Old Kingdom trilogy, and is followed by Lirael and Abhorsen....
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No one should expect anyone so cynical as Billy Wilder to tell a simple Cinderella story straight, and he has not done so in Sabrina…. Sabrina has everything light entertainment requires: a pleasant story gently mocking of the rich, whose...
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Sabrina, the Teenage Witch , based on characters from the comic book series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (created by Archie Comics ), first aired on ABC in 1996. It ran for seven seasons, ending in April 2003. Shortly before her sixteenth bi...
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Sabrina Ward Harrison (born 1975 in Montreal) is a Canadian artist, writer, photographer and motivational speaker . Sourced Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have...
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