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If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.


Marcus du Sautoy

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ANTON DU BEKE A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the...
W.E.B. DU BOIS If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER When Stephen talked about stalking chamois his whole expression changed. The features became more aq...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; no...
W.E.B. DU BOIS A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted....
DAPHNE DU MAURIER The thing about me is that I love variety. I like to try new things, and I don't want to be pinn...
ANTON DU BEKE One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striv...
W.E.B. DU BOIS The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-cons...
W.E.B. DU BOIS The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for ...
W.E.B. DU BOIS The sea, like a crinkled chart, spread to the horizon, and lapped the sharp outline of the coast, wh...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then retu...
JOACHIM DU BELLAY I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, wha...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... ...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, ...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER You really oughta warn a guy when you're going all glamorous on him, so he'd be prepared.
ROSAMOND DU JARDIN This is what it means to be a fanatic - but a fanatic, that is to say, in a very special sense. It h...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER I sit with Sha...
W.E.B. DU BOIS Seen on her own, the woman was not so remarkable. Tall, angular, aquiline features, with the close-c...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER [We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and ener...
W.E.B. DU BOIS I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.
ANTON DU BEKE