Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
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SAMUEL BARNETT The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
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AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
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AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
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Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man li...
COMPTON GAGE

Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
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On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the cit...
BERTOLT BRECHT

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JOSEPH CONRAD You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the...
GRAHAM COXON To stand on the
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN

Education can help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. Teaching students to make healthy dec...
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'You're bitching about ...
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COLIN TODD To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.
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and years will be added to your life…
By wisdom ...
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CRAIG GROESCHEL So this is going to be drill!?
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ASIF KAPADIA We hope that this organization will enhance the partnership and cooperation between the Muslim- Amer...
SHAKEEL SYED You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
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RAY LAMONTAGNE Your mind is not just the wonderful power house that empowers your action and steps or the driver of...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH to know your true value in a state brings forth good intentions and value into that which is Now for...
CATHERINE MARIE BERGMAN They are a tremendous resource.
JERRY RUBIN The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the avera...
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OMAR BONGO One thing about Los Angeles is it feels like it's not new. It feels like it's already been b...
ALBERT BROOKS Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to...
JOHN BURROUGHS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d...
THERESE MAY Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the...
JOSE MOURINHO A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If I was drowning you would part the sea
And risk your own life to rescue me . . .
JAMIE MCGUIRE I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
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E.J. PATTEN Many Americans want to get serious about eating right -- but for some, they don't know where to turn...
APU MODY Many Americans want to get serious about eating right - but for some, they don't know where to turn....
APU MODY This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city:...
BIBLE Sun shines on my back as I walk away
Sun shines on my chest and I return
The fall air is c...
BRENT M. JONES We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn ...
ORVILLE REDENBACHER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE New York City is a street to beat. An atmosphere where once was a crucial line to gait. But now a pl...
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NEIL GAIMAN Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t...
NEIL GAIMAN I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa...
NEIL GAIMAN Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.
NEIL GAIMAN Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...
NEIL GAIMAN Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t...
NEIL GAIMAN Books were safer than other people anyway.
NEIL GAIMAN I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe...
NEIL GAIMAN As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
NEIL GAIMAN Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
NEIL GAIMAN I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy...
NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, ...
NEIL GAIMAN One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...
NEIL GAIMAN The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
NEIL GAIMAN I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ...
NEIL GAIMAN You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic...
NEIL GAIMAN Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
NEIL GAIMAN So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a...
NEIL GAIMAN When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
NEIL GAIMAN Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ...
NEIL GAIMAN As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th...
NEIL GAIMAN I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi...
NEIL GAIMAN Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
NEIL GAIMAN Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l...
NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu...
NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe...
NEIL GAIMAN I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ...
NEIL GAIMAN What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven?
NEIL GAIMAN Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ...
NEIL GAIMAN The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge...
NEIL GAIMAN Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w...
NEIL GAIMAN

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

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Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

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