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Were you always like this?’
‘Like what?’
‘A madman. With a time machine.’
‘Oh, no. It took ages until I got the time machine.
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Neil Gaiman (Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts #11))
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I went to the shoemaker to collect his wastepaper. One of them asked me if my book was communistic. I replied that it was realistic. He cautioned me that it was not wise to write of reality.
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Carolina Maria de Jesus (Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition)
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And I don't need to look clever. I am clever. The fact that I look clever is merely a bonus.
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Derek Landy (The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #10))
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You have no idea the power generated each time somebody is told a story. When a conscious, sentient mind willingly ignores what is real, what is fact, and instead chooses to invest in people and places that never existed...It's magnificent.
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Derek Landy (The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #10))
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I don’t find you suspicious at all.’ He turned to Martha and whispered, ‘I find him incredibly suspicious.
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Derek Landy (The Mystery Of The Haunted Cottage (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #10))
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Hogwarts, it is not, thought the Doctor, realising that no one would appreciate this reference for almost a century.
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Eoin Colfer (A Big Hand for the Doctor (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #1))
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Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.
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Puffin Books (The Mystery Of The Haunted Cottage (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #10))
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An unhappy childhood is supposed to make you grow up fast, but I still feel like a kid a lot of the time.
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Holly Black (Doctor Who: Lights Out (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #12))
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You're a trickster, Doctor, not a warrior.
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Charlie Higson (The Beast of Babylon (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #9))
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Sometimes we need to tell ourselves something important, something so important we don't tell ourselves in a very straightforward way. Sometimes we can only do it with a new face.
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Holly Black (Doctor Who: Lights Out (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #12))
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Nasty things, you know, gods, they don’t much care for anyone other than themselves.
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Charlie Higson (Doctor Who: The Beast of Babylon: Ninth Doctor: 50th Anniversary)
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A noite está tépida. O céu está salpicado de estrelas. Eu que sou exótica gostaria de recortar um pedaço do céu para fazer um vestido
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Carolina Maria de Jesus (Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition)
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Ah, yes,’ said the Doctor, ‘because 2007 has none of those things.
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Puffin Books (The Mystery Of The Haunted Cottage (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #10))
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Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.
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Abbie Hoffman (Steal This Book (50th Anniversary Edition))
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Personally, he much preferred to get them chatting. People were generally much less inclined to want to kill you once you’d chatted for a bit, and if they weren’t, well, at least you could use the time to think of an escape plan.
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Philip Reeve (The Roots of Evil (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #4))
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Why is it that the saints of June are honored with fire?
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Carolina Maria de Jesus (Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition)
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Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.
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Derek Landy (The Mystery Of The Haunted Cottage (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #10))
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In 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, they both died. They died on the same day, within a few hours of each other, and that day was the Fourth of July.
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George Washington (The Complete Book of Presidential Inaugural Speeches: from George Washington to Barack Obama (Annotated))
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In the darkness, everything is different. The air feels thick. My skin itches. I close my eyes, but that just plunges me deeper into nothingness. It's like being out in space, drifting, without even the comfort of stars. It's like being buried in the earth, buried in my past, buried and trying to dig my way out.
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Holly Black (Doctor Who: Lights Out (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #12))
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Oh, how I wish I had already regenerated to become the tall one with the dicky bow, thought the Doctor, who occasionally had visions of his future selves. He is always so fit and agile. I suppose all that incessant running down corridors that he does . . . will do . . . may do, in one of my possible futures . . . is good for something.
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Eoin Colfer (A Big Hand for the Doctor (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #1))
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First rule of being a detective,' the Doctor said a he knocked on the door, 'is to observe. Observe the obvious, and observe the not-so-obvious. Observing the not-so-obvious is not as easy as observing the obvious, but if it were easy everyone would be at it.
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Derek Landy (The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #10))
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Yes. You see, the whole nature, shape and even the modern blue pigment of the TARDIS is so deeply unfamiliar to the primitive mind that, although the optic nerve registers its presence, the brain cannot decode what it is seeing. The primitive visual cortex is unable to relay information about it consciously to the viewer. In effect, even though her chameleon circuit is still damaged, she’s as good as invisible. She’ll be just fine.
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Marcus Sedgwick (The Spear of Destiny (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #3))
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The Doctor put his finger to his lips and Martha nodded and followed him as quietly as she could. Wet leaves squelched under her feet. There was movement up ahead: two teenagers, a pale boy and a nervous girl, walked into a clearing. The sun broke through the clouds and the boy started to sparkle.
Martha felt the Doctor’s eyes on her and she blushed. ‘Do not judge me.’
‘Judging is for later,’ he said, and they continued on, giving the young lovers a wide berth.
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Derek Landy (The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #10))
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man and a woman were approaching their 50th wedding anniversary. To celebrate, the woman decided she would cook a big dinner for her husband. Then he said they should do what they did on their wedding night, and eat at the dinner table naked. The woman agreed. On their anniversary night, at the table, the woman says, "Honey, my nipples are as hot for you as they were 50 years ago." The man replies, "Madge, hon, that's because they are sitting in your soup. ♦◊♦◊♦◊♦
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Various (101 Dirty Jokes - sexual and adult's jokes)
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The Kin,’ said the Doctor. ‘A population that consists of only one creature, but able to move through time as easily and instinctively as a human can cross the road. There was only one of you. But you’d populate a place by moving backwards and forwards in time until there were hundreds of you, then thousands and millions, all interacting with yourselves at different moments on your own timeline. And this would go on until the local structure of time would collapse, like rotten wood. You need other entities, at least in the beginning, to ask you the time, and create the quantum superpositioning that allows you to anchor to a place–time location.
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Neil Gaiman (Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts #11))
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Space is so dark that looking out at it confounds the brain. The more you stare at the vastness of it, at the hanging stars and the swirling galaxies, the more you start to notice how imprecise words like 'dark' and 'black' and 'endless' are. There are so many gradients of shadow, all of them terrifying to me. That's why I keep the lights on.
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Holly Black (Doctor Who: Lights Out (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #12))
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Cold didn’t worry him unduly. Given that his normal body temperature was way below human levels, the dip in the river had been no more than refreshing, certainly not deadly.
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Marcus Sedgwick (The Spear of Destiny (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #3))
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One of the advantages of having a binary vascular system was that he could always pump his blood faster than normal if he chose to, raising his body temperature at will.
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Marcus Sedgwick (The Spear of Destiny (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #3))
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Temporal grace,’ said the Doctor. ‘No weapons can function inside the TARDIS – even something as simple as a spear.
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Marcus Sedgwick (The Spear of Destiny (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #3))
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It's amazing how we hide from that, isn't it? How much of the violence of the universe comes from the unwillingness to say those two little words: 'I'm scared.
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Holly Black (Doctor Who: Lights Out (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #12))
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Here is what is most surprising of all: one can be a human being despite everything!
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago: 50th Anniversary Abridged Edition)
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Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence.
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Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition)
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In this long history of accelerating development, one can single out two especially significant jumps. The first, occurring between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, probably was made possible by genetic changes in our bodies: namely, by evolution of the modern anatomy permitting modern speech or modern brain function, or both. That jump led to bone tools, single-purpose stone tools, and compound tools. The second jump resulted from our adoption of a sedentary lifestyle, which happened at different times in different parts of the world, as early as 13,000 years ago in some areas and not even today in others.
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Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition))
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You’re an independent temporal nexus, chronosynclastically established as an inverse …’ He saw her expression, and stopped. ‘You’re telling me it’s timey-wimey, aren’t you?’ ‘Yes,’ he said seriously. ‘I suppose I am.
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Neil Gaiman (Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts #11))
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Golrandonvar?’ asked the Doctor. ‘No, it doesn’t ring a bell, I’m afraid. But then I’ve visited such a lot of places … Did it look a bit like a gravel pit? You’d be amazed how many alien worlds look just like gravel pits …
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Philip Reeve (The Roots of Evil (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #4))
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No, listen. Us girls, we might all look different, but we're pretty similar underneath. We like to appear responsible, to do what's expected of us, we're not supposed to be reckless and wild and go off running with dodgy space tramps like you. But give us a nudge and --
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Charlie Higson (The Beast of Babylon (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #9))
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We all have things inside ourselves we can't kill,' I say, not sure which part of me would be better off dead: this monster self, or the normal one who wants nothing more than a little place on a little planet with his friends, the one who will have to live with being a killer.
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Holly Black (Doctor Who: Lights Out (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #12))
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At Home, by Marcia J. Monbleau, was published in 1994, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Harwich. This is a must read, not only to see what Harwich used to look like in the old days, but Cape Cod as well. Additionally, a wonderful pictorial book is Images of America – Harwich, by Joan M. Maloney.
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Fran Larkin (Cape Cod Forever: Growing up in the 50s and 60s)
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Careful with that," said the Doctor. "No need to get carried away."
Aldridge spun the scalpel like a baton. "Yessir. Careful is my middle name. Actually Clumsy is my middle name, but that doesn't encourage clients and it makes me sound like one of those dwarfs that are going to be so popular when moving pictures a get going.
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Eoin Colfer (A Big Hand for the Doctor (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #1))
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In this long history of accelerating development, one can single out two especially significant jumps. The first, occurring between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, probably was made possible by genetic changes in our bodies: namely, by evolution of the modern anatomy permitting modern speech or modern brain function, or both. That jump led to bone tools, single-purpose stone tools, and compound tools.
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Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition))
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Upon their meeting in New York in 1958: “We didn’t want to live together. We didn’t have any examples of what a good love relationship between two men could be. And there was always the problem of hiding so no one would know we were gay. There was no question that if I were known to be gay, living with another man, it would make it more difficult for me to get work as an actor.” - Alan Shayne, co-author, Double Life
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Alan Shayne (Double Life: The Story of a Fifty Year Marriage)
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... Quando cheguei ao palacio que é a cidade os meus filhos vieram dizer-me que havia encontrado macarrão no lixo. E a comida era pouca, eu fiz um pouco do macarrão com feijão. E o meu filho João José disse-me: – Pois é. A senhora disse-me que não ia mais comer as coisas do lixo.
Foi a primeira vez que vi a minha palavra falhar. Eu disse:
– É que eu tinha fé no Kubstchek.
– A senhora tinha fé e agora não tem mais?
– Não, meu filho. A democracia está perdendo os seus adeptos. No nosso paiz tudo está enfraquecendo. O dinheiro é fraco. A democracia é fraca e os políticos fraquíssimos. E tudo que está fraco, morre um dia.
... Os políticos sabem que eu sou poetisa. E que o poeta enfrenta a morte quando vê o seu povo oprimido.
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Carolina Maria de Jesus (Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition)
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Let me hypothesize a political scenario on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’ s landing on the moon, in 2019. The U.S. President, whoever that may be, takes the opportunity to direct the future of human space exploration, pioneered by Americans, by stating in a speech: “I believe that this nation should commit itself, within two decades, to establish permanence on the planet Mars.
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Buzz Aldrin (Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration)
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To live safely in our society, let alone manage it, will require a continuous education until a man dies.
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Elting E. Morison (Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition)
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look at children, patiently, repeatedly, respectfully, and to hold off making theories and judgments about them until they have in their minds what most of them do not now have—a reasonably accurate model of what children are like.
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John C. Holt (How Children Learn (50th anniversary edition) (A Merloyd Lawrence Book))
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Children use fantasy not to get out of, but to get into, the real world.
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John C. Holt (How Children Learn (50th anniversary edition) (A Merloyd Lawrence Book))
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4½ ounces cream cheese ½ cup butter 1 cup flour jelly or preserves Sugar Belle melts her butter, blends it with the cheese, and stirs in the flour to make a nice smooth dough. Then she puts it in the freezing compartment for about an hour, until it’s firm. Next, she nips little pieces off, about the size of golf balls, rolls them out, trims them into squares, and puts a teaspoon of jelly on each. (If you wonder why Sugar Belle doesn’t just roll the whole thing out and cut it into squares, it is because the dough is hard to handle that way.) Then she folds them into triangles, seals the edges with a floured fork, and bakes them on a greased cooky sheet at 450º until they’re brown, which is from ten to fifteen minutes. And when she puts a big plateful of these in front of her husband, you just ought to see his face light up!
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Peg Bracken (The I Hate to Cook Book: 50th Anniversary Edition)
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The rising wave of nostalgia and an increasing interest in heritage sites and historic buildings is perhaps not only a sense of yearning for a lost Singapore, but also the recognition that neither 1959 nor 1965 marked Year One (...) In all the campaigns and features on Singapore's 50th anniversary that I've come across, the Kranji War Memorial was never mentioned. It just doesn't fit the slender narrative. That's such a shame because the cemetery is a fitting, dignified tribute to thousands of Singapore heroes, both local and foreign.
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Neil Humphreys (Saving a Sexier Island: Notes from an Old Singapore)
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I have a message in a time bottle for the candidate who wins the 2016 election for the U.S. presidency. There’s opportunity to make a bold statement on the occasion of the July 2019 50th anniversary of the first humans to land on the moon: “I believe this nation should commit itself, within two decades, to commencing American permanence on the planet Mars.
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Buzz Aldrin (Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration)
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the state has to pay 50 per cent, then even reliable commercial borrowers are likely to pay some kind of war premium. It is no coincidence that the year 1499, when Venice was fighting both on land in Lombardy and at sea against the Ottoman Empire, saw a severe financial crisis as bonds crashed in value and interest rates soared.
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Niall Ferguson (The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition)
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remember that the interest is paid on the face value of the bond, so if you can buy a 5 per cent bond at just 10 per cent of its face value you can earn a handsome yield of 50 per cent. In essence, you expect a return proportional to the risk you are prepared to take.
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Niall Ferguson (The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition)
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was that when I said the dream is over, I had made the physical break
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Chris Hutchins (The Beatles in America: The 50th Anniversary)
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The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.
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Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition)
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That's right," said Gandalf. "Let's have no more argument. I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself. You may (possibly) all live to thank me yet.
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J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit (50th Anniversary Edition))
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JFK Assassination The general premise of the situation is that President John F. Kennedy rode through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Shots rang out, and the resulting barrage of bullets ended with the President being fatally shot in the head. An event that was caught on tape by the famous film shot by Abraham Zapruder. [1] The assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was caught the same day after shooting a Dallas police officer. Two days later, he was killed, again on camera, by Jack Ruby with one shot to the abdomen. The new President, former Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, put together the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination. They concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and closed the book on the case. This conclusion meant that Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine with questionable marksman skills using an archaic bolt-action rifle, would have to fire 3 shots within 8 to 11 seconds. It required that he aim and fire at a moving target, pull back the bolt to release the shell, and then aim and fire again. He would aim and fire one more time before it was over, but was he the only one firing? This wasn't good enough for the American people, and the case was revisited with a new investigation in 1978. The House Select Committee on Assassinations simply concluded that the killing was the result of a conspiracy, and that was it. For 50+ years, we have been left to theorize and hypothesize about what happened in Dealey Plaza that day. A new idea was presented to the public on the 50th anniversary of the event in November 2013 that theorized the final shot that exploded Kennedy's head was accidental. This idea theorized that the shot came from a Secret Service agent in the follow-up vehicle. The agent had retrieved an assault rifle from the floorboard of the limo, and when the vehicle lunged, he fired the fatal shot. This action was followed by an extensive cover-up to save the agency from public embarrassment. I don't think we will ever know what really happened that day. [2]
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Ava Fails (Conspiracy Theory 101: A Researcher's Starting Point)
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We were reasonably strong, but I mean we were, after all, thinkers. So Dean Pegram again looked around and said that seems to be a job a little bit beyond your feeble strength, but there is a football squad at Columbia that contains a dozen or so of very husky boys who take jobs by the hour just to carry them through college. 1541 Why don’t you hire them? And it was a marvelous idea; it was really a pleasure for once to direct the work of these husky boys, canning uranium—just shoving it in—handling packs of 50 or 100 pounds with the same ease as another person would have handled three or four pounds.
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Richard Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition)
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The War of the Worlds 50th-Anniversary Production honors The Power of Radio. It also pays tribute to that original broadcast — to its sense of humor and its crafty simulation of radio, military and government people trying to cope with an unfolding emergency. In this new production we’ve looked at these people through the media of our time, while keeping the dramatic rhythms of the historic original intact. I like this audio medium when it’s magical. When it fools the ear. I like it when it has something to risk and risks it. I like it when it uses its own Power to create an effect. And now that we can take audio theatre outdoors and on location, why not do a story that develops in many places — simultaneously? The War of the Worlds is sort of the Midsummer Night’s Dream of radio drama.
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David Ossman (Dr. Firesign's Follies)
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It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it is such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then would there?
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables - 50Th Anniversary Edition - [Penguin Classic Edition] - (ANNOTATED))
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Now Bridal Veil Falls, stern and forbidding in winter, was leaping down joyously to join the San Miguel River.
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Harriet Fish Backus (Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West)
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It was over 50 years ago that I had the privilege of being the Class Advisor to the class of 1969 at what was then called Henry Abbott Regional Vocational Technical School. It was another era and a time when we as a nation stood tall.
It was the year when Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins lifted off from Cape Kennedy, for the first manned landing on the Moon. “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was a time when we felt proud to be Americans!
Fifty years ago the 4 Beatles got together in a recording studio for the last time, where they cut “Abbey Road.” In 1969 alone they published 13 songs including “Yellow Submarine.” John Lennon claimed that the best song he ever did was “Come Together” and that was in 1969.
Although it wasn’t possible for me to attend the class reunion I did however connect with them by telephone and a speaker system. I had the opportunity to wish them well and share some thoughts with my former students who are now looking forward to their senior years that I always thought of as “The Youth of Old Age.” Having just celebrated my 85th birthday, 69 years old does seem quite youthful in comparison.
Earlier in the week Dave Coelho, the class Vice President read to me the list of graduates that are no longer with us. I was stunned by the number, but at the time the United States was at war, regardless of what it was called. In 1968, the year before the class graduated, our country had a peak of 549,000 of our young people serving in Viet Nam. During the year of the Tet Offensive alone, 543 were killed and 2547 were wounded, and that is what the class of 1969 faced upon their graduation! It was a war in which 57,939 of our young people were killed or went missing!
It was nice to talk to the class president LaBarbera and I enjoyed the feeling of guilt when one former student told me that he still has a problem with addition. To this I gladly accepted the blame but reminded him that this would not be of much help, if he had to face the IRS when his taxes didn’t compute. Look for part 2, the conclusion
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Hank Bracker
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Mortgages were short-term, usually for three to five years, and they were not amortized. In other words, people paid interest, but did not repay the sum they had borrowed (the principal) until the end of the loan’s term, so that they ended up facing a balloon-sized final payment. The average difference (spread) between mortgage rates and high-grade corporate bond yields was about two percentage points during the 1920s, compared with about half a per cent (50 basis points) in the past twenty years.
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Niall Ferguson (The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition)
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From Joan Baez at Town Hall in New York City, on her 50th Anniversary Tour as a performer. "People always ask me about my voice. I tell them, 'The gift is from God. My job is just maintenance and delivery.
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Terry Brennan
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CLAM WHIFFLE 3–4 servings (A whiffle is a soufflé that any fool can make. This is a dandy recipe for those days when you’ve just had your teeth pulled. It has a nice delicate flavor, too, and it doesn’t call for anything you’re not apt to have around, except the clams. You can even skip the green pepper.) 12 soda crackers (the ordinary 2-inch by 2-inch kind) 1 cup milk ¼ cup melted butter 6.5-ounce can minced clams, drained 2 tablespoons chopped onion 1 tablespoon chopped green pepper ¼ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce dash of salt, pepper 2 eggs, beaten together Soak the crumbled crackers in the milk for a few minutes. Then add everything else, eggs last. Pour it all into a greased casserole, and bake it in a 350˚ oven for forty-five minutes, uncovered.
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Peg Bracken (The I Hate to Cook Book: 50th Anniversary Edition)