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Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
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Glen Cook (Sweet Silver Blues (Garrett P.I., #1))
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I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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Yann Martel
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What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. For example - I wonder - could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I have about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day. I wish so much that I'd had one last look at him in the lifeboat, that I'd provoked him a little, so that I was on his mind. I wish I had said to him then - yes, I know, to a tiger, but still - I wish I had said, "Richard Parker, it's over. We have survived. Can you believe it? I owe you more gratitude than I can express I couldn't have done it without you. I would like to say it formally: Richard Parker, thank you. Thank you for saving my life. And now go where you must. You have known the confined freedom of a zoo most of your life; now you will know the free confinement of a jungle. I wish you all the best with it. Watch out for Man. He is not your friend. But I hope you will remember me as a friend. I will never forget you , that is certain. You will always be with me, in my heart. What is that hiss? Ah, our boat has touched sand. So farewell, Richard Parker, farewell. God be with you.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.
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Daniel Tammet (Born on a Blue Day)
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People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that *they* might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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Swamp.”
“Yeah, Hiker?”
“What’s bothering you besides this new case?”
I looked at him. How did he know? My recollections of my days at the naval academy came flooding back.
“Bothering me?”
“Yeah. Don’t make me repeat myself.
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Behcet Kaya (Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series))
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation in a frenzy. To one born in a religion where the battle for a single soul can be a relay race run over many centuries, with innumerable generations passing along the baton, the quick resolution of Christianity has a dizzying effect. If Hinduism flows placidly like the Ganges, then Christianity bustles like Toronto at rush hour. It is religion as swift as a swallow, as urgent as an ambulance. It turns on a dime, expresses itself in the instant. In a moment you are lost or saved. Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others.Because of the impression that the future is blocked up,that they might do alright but not their children.Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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A million seconds from now is just shy of eleven days and fourteen hours. Not so bad. I could wait that long. It’s within two weeks. A billion seconds is over thirty-one years. A trillion seconds from now is after the year 33,700 CE.
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Matt Parker (Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors)
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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation in a frenzy.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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Somehow, it’s tender and romantic that he’s helping me put on my clothes, and it makes me want to take my shirt off again.
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Jackie Lau (The Ultimate Pi Day Party (Baldwin Village, #1))
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That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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On a day when I estimated it was my mothers birthday, I sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to her out loud.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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This is a common theme in human progress. We make things beyond what we understand, and we always have done. Steam engines worked before we had a theory of thermodynamics; vaccines were developed before we knew how the immune system works; aircraft continue to fly to this day, despite the many gaps in our understanding of aerodynamics. When theory lags behind application, there will always be mathematical surprises lying in wait. The important thing is that we learn from these inevitable mistakes and don’t repeat them.
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Matt Parker (Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors)
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If you have half a nothing - sell it for a double something, resell half at double-price, and buy another something and a half - how much nothing will you have two days from then? Like three. Because three is the short version of π, and π is involved in virtually anything, in some form, if you believe what the internet tells you.
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Will Advise (Nothing is here...)
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Why the number three? Probably because there are three stages to be completed: the death, the pregnancy, and childbirth. Just as the moon, which must have three days to reappear. Historically and symbolically, it is always three for something to come back: the disappearance, the construction, the birth. This is the cycle, the circle, the formula to calculate the perimeter (the life), is, let us remember, the diameter multiplied by 3.14 (Pi)
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Marie D. F. Cachet
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The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the nhand of the LORD being strong upon me. 15 oAnd I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling oby the Chebar canal, and I sat where they were dwelling. [3] And pI sat there qoverwhelmed among them rseven days.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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It's morning in Bethany and God is hungry God wants His breakfast. He comes to a fig tree. It's not the season for figs so the tree has no figs. God is peeved. The Son mutters "May you never bear fruit again " and instantly the fig tree withers. So says Matthew backed up by Mark.
I ask you is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent fig tree whither it instantly
I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me the less I could forget Him. And the more I learned about Him the less I wanted to leave Him.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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Oh ! qu'on m'aille donc, au lieu de cela, chercher quelque jeune vicaire, quelque vieux curé, au hasard, dans la première paroisse venue, qu'on le prenne au coin de son feu, lisant son livre et ne s'attendant à rien, et qu'on lui dise :
– Il y a un homme qui va mourir, et il faut que ce soit vous qui le consoliez. Il faut que vous soyez là quand on lui liera les mains, là quand on lui coupera les cheveux; que vous montiez dans sa charrette avec votre crucifix pour lui cacher le bourreau; que vous soyez cahoté avec lui par le pavé jusqu'à la Grève : que vous traversiez avec lui l'horrible foule buveuse de sang; que vous l'embrassiez au pied de l'échafaud, et que vous restiez jusqu'à ce que la tête soit ici et le corps là.
Alors, qu'on me l'amène, tout palpitant, tout frissonnant de la tête aux pieds; qu'on me jette entre ses bras, à ses genoux; et il pleurera, et nous pleurerons, et il sera éloquent, et je serais consolé, et mon cœur se dégonflera dans le sien, et il prendra mon âme, et je prendrais son Dieu.
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Victor Hugo (The Last Day of a Condemned Man)
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The sun was beginning to pull the curtains on the day.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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If Lakshmi, goddess of wealth, one day favours me bountifully, Oxford is fifth on the list of cities I would like to visit before I pass on, after Mecca, Varanasi, Jerusalem and Paris.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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Allowing for the two types of year (leap and normal), and the seven possible days a year can start on, there are only fourteen calendars to choose from. When I was shopping for a 2019 calendar (non–leap year, starting on a Tuesday), I knew it would be the same as the one for 2013, so I could pick up a secondhand one at a discount price. Actually, for some retro charm, I hunted down one from 1985.
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Matt Parker (Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors)
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I can well imagine that somewhere far off, 150 miles away, a ship’s watch looked up, startled, and later reported the oddest thing, that he thought he heard a cat’s meow coming from three o’clock. Days
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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These boys both fell out of the ugly tree at a young age, hitting every damned branch on the way down. Then their mommas whupped them with an ugly stick and fed them ugly soup every day of their lives. They were Uh-glee, with a couple of capital double-ugs.
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Glen Cook (Angry Lead Skies (Garrett P.I., #10))
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And I survived because I made a point of forgetting. My story started on a calendar day—July 2nd, 1977—and ended on a calendar day—February 14th, 1978—but in between there was no calendar. I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. For example - I wonder - could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I have about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day. I wish so much that I'd had one last look at him in the lifeboat, that I'd provoked him a little, so that I was on his mind. I wish I had said to him then - yes, I know, to a tiger, but still - I wish I had said, "Richard Parker, it's over. We have survived. Can you believe it? I owe you more gratitude than I can express I couldn't have done it without you.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let it go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said, but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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The voice said, “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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Sorry, folks, I don’t intend to get up this early every day. It’s just that trying to sleep in a strange house doesn’t work for me. Once you get to know me, you’ll see I’m really a great guy, a perfect neighbor. I keep myself to myself and never bring my work home with me, which is a good thing since my work involves demons and vampires.
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Adam J. Wright (Lost Soul (Harbinger P.I., # 1))
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When I was your age, I lived in bed, racked with polio. I asked myself every day, ‘Where is God? Where is God? Where is God?’ God never came. It wasn’t God who saved me—it was medicine. Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It’s the end. If the watch doesn’t work properly, it must be fixed here and now by us.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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Help our baby girls grow in power! Teach them from Day 1 that young girls are NEVER too young to have a voice, make a difference, inspire, and empower. I want to see young women walk tall, walk proud, head up, shoulders back, full of knowledge, informed, educated (not always the same thing by the way), confident, aware, fearless, and unabashedly goal-oriented!
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Liz Faublas (You Have a Superpower: Mindi PI Meets Bailey)
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Therefore, the eight trigrams are frequently coordinated with the day, and they can of course also be correlated with the course of the year. ... A cycle of twelve hexagrams from the Book of Changes, the so-called P'i Kua is often also correlated witht he course of the year. ... These eight trigrams, then are coordinated with the times of the day and the cardinal points, and have, in addition, very interesting psychological correlations.
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Hellmut Wilhelm
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People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that they might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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The exterior of the building was designed by architect Rafael Viñoly to have a sweeping curve, but this meant that all the reflective glass windows accidentally became a massive concave mirror—a kind of giant lens in the sky able to focus sunlight on a tiny area. It’s not often sunny in London, but when a sun-filled day in summer 2013 lined up with the recently completed windows, a death heat-ray swept across London. OK, it wasn’t that bad. But it was producing temperatures of nearly 200°F
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Matt Parker (Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors)
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Just beyond the pi-pi, and disposed in a triangle before the entrance of the house, were three magnificent bread-fruit trees. At this moment I can recap to my mind their slender shafts, and the graceful inequalities of their bark, on which my eye was accustomed to dwell day after day in the midst of my solitary musings. It is strange how inanimate objects will twine themselves into our affections, especially in the hour of affliction. Even now, amidst all the bustle and stir of the proud and busy city in which I am dwelling, the image of those three trees seems to come as vividly before my eyes as if they were actually present, and I still feel the soothing quiet pleasure which I then had in watching hour after hour their topmost boughs waving gracefully in the breeze.
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Herman Melville (Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life)
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On our last day, a few hours before we were to leave for Munnar, I hurried up the hill on the left. It strikes me now as a typically Christian scene. Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that’s creation in a frenzy. To one born in a religion where the battle for a single soul can be a relay race run over many centuries, with innumerable generations passing along the baton, the quick resolution of Christianity has a dizzying effect. If Hinduism flows placidly like the Ganges, then Christianity bustles like Toronto at rush hour. It turns on a dime, expresses itself in an instant. In a moment you are lost or saved. Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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Relway mused, “Now that it’s happened I’m not so sure I’m happy with the outcome. Spared their racial theories The Call would’ve been good for TunFaire.” He would appreciate their interest in law and order and proper behavior. “Here’s a challenge you still need to meet. Glory Mooncalled. He’s weak now but he’s still out there somewhere. If you don’t get him now he’ll try to put something back together someday. He can’t help himself.” “It’s still great day for TunFaire, Garrett. One of pure triumph.” I don’t know if he meant that or was being sarcastic. You never quite know anything with Relway. And he wants it that way. “I liked the way you put it, Garrett. Faded steel heat.” I’d mentioned that to him the night he’d discovered the tanks in the old Lamp brewery. “But the war goes on.” “The war never ends. Tell you what. Send me a note when you do decide to roast that pigeon. I’ve got dibs on a drumstick.
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Glen Cook (Faded Steel Heat (Garrett P.I., #9))
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My greatest wish—other than salvation—was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time. Alas, there was no scripture in the lifeboat. I was a disconsolate Arjuna in a battered chariot without the benefit of Krishna’s words. The first time I came upon a Bible in the bedside table of a hotel room in Canada, I burst into tears. I sent a contribution to the Gideons the very next day, with a note urging them to spread the range of their activity to all places where worn and weary travellers might lay down their heads, not just to hotel rooms, and that they should leave not only Bibles, but other sacred writings as well. I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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Amiga enthusiasts were some of the most resourceful people I’ve ever seen. Who’d have thought you could turn a real–time clock port into a connector for high-speed storage? All of this was only possible because people really understood how all the parts fit together. They knew how to get the best out of the machine because they really knew how the machine worked. These days, I spend my working day trying to make fast things go faster. To have any hope of success, I too need to know how everything works. Companies need people like me to push things forward, but they’re coming across a bit of a problem. People who really know computers inside out are getting much harder to find—we are a dying breed, and this is the situation that the Raspberry Pi Foundation is desperately trying to reverse. So what happened? Well, things changed. Computers went from being the curiosity in the corner to being a
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Peter Membrey (Learn Raspberry Pi with Linux (Technology in Action))
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The Royal Cubit is a daily measure which is projected into the solar month (i.e. a decanic month consists of 3 weeks with 10 days each) through angularly treating the day as an arcdegree (30=180/pi*0.5236) so that the reciprocity of the RC delivers a magnification measure which equals to the ratio of the size of the Earth to that of the Sun (109.28=180/[pi*0.5236]).
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (The Mill of Egypt: The Complete Series Fused)
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I’m still glowing, my power mounting with every passing second. My hands tremble just the slightest as I fight my other urges—sex and violence. Consider me a modern day Jekyll and Hyde. Most of the time I’m simply Callie the PI. But when I need to use my power, another side of me surfaces. The siren is the monster inside of me; she wants to take, and take, and take. To wreak havoc, to feast on her victims’ fear and lust.
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Laura Thalassa (Rhapsodic (The Bargainer, #1))
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The largest standing and tallest Egyptian obelisk is the Lateran Obelisk at more than 32 meters; which happens to emulate the lunar factor (i.e. 12) in the absence of the pyramid's base. The Obelisk structure heralded the abandonment of the lunar mechanics (upon which the Osirian religion was based) and reduced the temporal mechanics down to the Sun. The Atenians (and their Roman Christian heirs) got rid of the month and celebrated the week starting with the Sun/Son-day (32.5*10 days per week/2*pi = 51.85 degrees).
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (The Mill of Egypt: The Complete Series Fused)
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The Hindu scriptures place the present world-age as occurring within the Kali Yuga of a much longer universal cycle than the simple 24,000-year equinoctial cycle with which Sri Yukteswar was concerned. The universal cycle of the scriptures is 4,300,560,000 years in extent, and measures out a Day of Creation. This vast figure is based on the relationship between the length of the solar year and a multiple of pi (3.1416, the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle). The life span for a whole universe, according to the ancient seers, is 314,159,000,000,000 solar years, or “One Age of Brahma.” The Hindu scriptures declare that an earth such as ours is dissolved for one of two reasons: the inhabitants as a whole become either completely good or completely evil. The world mind thus generates a power that releases the captive atoms held together as an earth. Dire pronouncements are occasionally published regarding an imminent “end of the world.” Planetary cycles, however, proceed according to an orderly divine plan. No earthly dissolution is in sight; many ascending and descending equinoctial cycles are yet in store for our planet in its present form. 6
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Paramahansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi (Complete Edition))
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The sun had set when we left the museum that day, and the holidaymakers had long since departed. The wind had dropped; already a nighttime chill had begun to creep into the air. In the brief desert twilight the pyramids stood out in all their ruined majesty, dark hulks that loomed
against the last apricot-coloured g l ow in the western sky. At night the Giza plateau is a lonely place, cold and forbidding, inhabited only by a
few guards, wrapped like mummies against the night wind, and the yapping, threatening pi-dogs of Egypt.
From a time long before King Cheops this plateau had been a sacred burying ground, and even today there is about it a sense of holiness and mystery, especially in the empty silences of the night. The ancient people who built these monuments, and apparently buried their kings within, are in a way as mysterious to us as the pyramids themselves.
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Nancy Jenkins
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M"
Mnemosyne’s silent M drives me to the dictionary
Her baby sister makes an n run. Youth does not tarry
Those diaphanous, luminescent water jellies, Mnemiopsis,
small as sneezes, I can only conjure as Knee me up, Sis
Spelling? Easier to recall these beauties as invasive
carnivorous, cannibalistic, and hermaphroditic
(They eat each other and fuck themselves)
Mnemonic is a device that helps me remember
birthdays and phone numbers
of those I no longer love but can recall in traces
Or how to sequence pi to a thousand places
as Guinness names me a mnemonist. Or
my own birthday because my mother died the day before
Just a handful of words end in mn, and the soul they limn:
autumn, solemn, damn, condemn, the a capella hymn
But hundreds contain mn. A standout: that Jurassic cephalopod,
belemnite, long gone, yet its name and phallic fossil live on
And should those Siamnese twins stand at the head, they’re led
by a vowel that takes m by the hand and leaves n to bed
another syllable. Amnesia. You are what you forget
Still, the mother of all muses has a name hard to set
Mnemiopsis, mnemonist, mnemonic, Mnemosyne— such elegance
I should be able to recall: these words all begin with silence
Perhaps her name once began with A: Out one day, bathing carefree
in the Aegean, she fell for a creature she could feel but not see—
say, a tentacled jelly—got entangled with the beast, lost the A,
Tore her chiton, and returned in disarray
Zeus said, Where’s the A I gave you on the birth of Calliope?
She, recalling his trysts, yet savoring her berth, wanted no scene
Saw in backward glance, the gem wedged in coral’s gritty teeth
A’s so plebeian. Words are rife. Alcmene, Europa, Hera, adultery
Few can spell my name yet spell I cast when lives are spent
I am the Titan Mnemosyne, Goddess of All Memory, and off she went
leaving Zeus to rue her gift and curse
Yet wise manager, was hers not the golden purse?
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Laura Glen Louis
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shook my head. “As long as you’re happy.” “Happy!” Gio barked out a short laugh. “Who the hell is happy? Happy is for chumps! I’m satisfied. I’ve got a nice family and I work steady. I can still enjoy a drink and a cigar, and sometimes I win a few bucks at poker. I love cars, and so does my son and one of my daughters. Fuck happy! I’ll take satisfaction any day of the week.
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Douglas Lumsden (A Hag Rises from the Abyss (Alexander Southerland, P.I. #3))
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She disappeared off the end of a bungee cord.” Now, there was a sentence you didn’t hear every day of the week.
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Adele Abbott (Witch is When My Heart Broke (A Witch P.I. Mystery, #9))
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Well, you know, it ain't nothin' out of the ordinary happened to Olive and me. Happens hundreds of times every day. But we're still livin' in the dark ages, I guess. Cain't just go to a doctor and say you want an abortion. Be ten thousand people that's got nothin' better to do than trying to run everybody else's lives, and they'd put you in jail, or shoot you or somethin'.
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Richard S. Prather (Shell Scott PI Mystery Series, Volume Two)
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The belief in the universal validity of the principle of the excluded third in mathematics is considered by the intuitionists as a phenomenon of the history of civilization of the same kind as the former belief in the rationality of pi, or in the rotation of the firmament about the earth. The intuitionist tries to explain the long duration of the reign of this dogma by two facts: firstly that within an arbitrarily given domain of mathematical entities the non-contradictority of the principle for a single assertion is easily recognized; secondly that in studying an extensive group of simple every-day phenomena of the exterior world, careful application of the whole of classical logic was never found to lead to error. [This means de facto that common objects and mechanisms subjected to familiar manipulations behave as if the system of states they can assume formed part of a finite discrete set, whose elements are connected by a finite number of relations.]
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L.E.J. Brouwer (Brouwer's Cambridge Lectures on Intuitionism)
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It’s splendid to be always optimistic, magnificently positive, right up there on top of the world every minute of every day; it’s also impossible. But if you’ve got a lock on the world, when you know the bruise in the blood or dull ache in your gut is a temporary thing if only you can con yourself into believing it is, nine times out of ten you can tighten those loose ends and warm the chill wind sighing inside, turn the snake of sadness around until it bites its tail and things start spinning, livening up, getting right again.
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Richard S. Prather (Shell Scott PI Mystery Series, Volume Five)
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I could’ve hired a PI to discover his whereabouts but the day he’d abandoned his family was the day he was dead to me. Family is everything and I can’t abide a child of mine shirking his responsibilities.
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Nicola Marsh (The Last Wife)
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Rick raised his brow. “Who were you talking to?”
“Millie.”
“Is she that tall woman you met the other day?”
Amelia nodded. “She’s our new client.”
“New client?” Rick’s brow rose with disbelief as he sat up straight. “You’re working on our honeymoon? No way! Don’t tell me you were promoting our business.”
“Hey! It’s not my fault,” defended Amelia. “She just walked up to me and asked for help. I couldn’t refuse her. She needs us.”
“How did she know you were a P.I.?”
Amelia pursed her lips tightly to prevent a smile. “Umm… You see… I… Well…
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Linda Weaver Clarke (Mystery on the Bayou (Amelia Moore Detective Series #6))
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Amelia? Let’s make sure we set some time aside every day for one another. We shouldn’t bring our work home with us. Okay?”
She smiled. “Deal!
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Linda Weaver Clarke (Mystery on the Bayou (Amelia Moore Detective Series #6))
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The constants of the Speed of Light and PI are not universal, they are terrestrial and are tweaked by Earth's mass (i.e., curvature of spacetime). All these parameters along with the universal ones were set by the signature of completing the creation in seven days.
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (The Calendar of Ancient Egypt: The Temporal Mechanics of the Giza Plateau)
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Every single day an estimated eighteen million men gratuitously waste the future of our country, by needlessly ejaculating one hundred million citizens of our country, which had they been born, would have made us the strongest country on the planet.
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Scott Andrews (PiSlamistan)
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As 15 degrees project a full revolution of one hour (15*24=360) onto Earth's Geodesy, so do the 11.5 (more precise, 11.459) degrees in projecting one tenth of that figure onto Giza Plateau's clock; the accumulated amount thereof in ten days, is what ancient Egyptians called: a week. The former representing a full rotation of Earth in 24 hours, and the latter mimicking a full rotation of the Giza Plateau about the heavens in ten days (10*PI*11.459); which is another proof for PI representing a measure of one single day.
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (Quotable: My Worldview)
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As impossible as it may sound, but the CEC uses a calibration gear of 1,000 teeth to project a one day's measure of time (PI) onto a right triangle alongside the speed of light value (x=2.99792458) while uttering thereby the time it takes light to reach Earth coming from the Sun (8.3 minutes).
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (Quotable: My Worldview)
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For the first day of the feast there were 13 + 2 +14 for a total of 29 sacrifices. The bullock sacrifices were in descending order or one less every day for seven days. Zane had made a point that the biblical religious calendar was based on the cycle of the moon. The early Israelites watched the waxing light for thirteen or fourteen days and then watched it wane for thirteen or fourteen more days. The total lunar cycle was 29.53 days long. David looked at the first seven numbers of pi again. Then he wrote the numbers in reverse, separating them into three groups: 295 14 13
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William Struse (The 13th Enumeration)
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There is a powerful difference between picturing an image that does not relate to you, and recalling something specific that you are connected with. When memory experts memorize something that is idle or vain, they’re only attempting to picture an image that does not relate to them. They don’t have to daily apply the digits of mathematical pi to live by them. They don’t have to apply the Declaration of Independence in a practical day to day life. As if Americans say when living life, “As it is written in the Declaration of Independence.” So they teach you how to memorize things idly, where as it is better to make a heartfelt connection with the word of God. Therefore Beloved, read the scriptures first and have a full connection with it before you memorize. As we stated before, it is good to memorize what is speaking out to you in the scriptures. Where God is speaking to you and teaching you in the word is the best place to memorize. It makes an emotional connection with you, and it’s applicable to your life in the here and now. Seeing that it is immediately applicable to your life you’ll be able to make an emotional connection with what you are memorizing. As a result, when you are past these teachings and have full understanding, even years in the future you’ll still remember the scripture because it made an emotional connection with you. Much like reminiscing over the cottage experience, every time the topic is brought up you’ll have waves of scripture rushing to you for practical application. Therefore in this method we are seeking to make memorizing the scriptures an experience and not merely a task or a goal for godliness. When it is relevant to experiences there is more for the mind to grasp onto the memory with thereby giving greater longevity to the memory itself. Similar to the peg method where you create an image for the mind to have more to grasp onto, you are using an already existing “image” so to speak, that the mind will grasp onto harder. But why does it grasp harder? Because it isn’t something silly thought of by oneself but it is an ongoing experience that led to a reminiscent memory. Therefore memorize what God is speaking to you and what has strong meaning to you. Whatever jumps out at you from the pages is what the Lord wants you to be memorizing. Therefore as a good pupil and good student, memorize what the Lord your Teacher is giving you to memorize. In school we do not memorize anything but what the teacher gives us, otherwise it would serve no purpose. Likewise it serves a greater purpose to memorize what God is giving you in the here and now, versus memorizing something that is not applying to you at this moment. Yes, all the word of God applies to your life and it always will. But certain things are speaking true to the immediate lesson in life and thus the scriptures speak out to you, and seem alive. Therefore memorize the words that are alive and you will have a continuous living memory of the word of God.
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Adam Houge (How To Memorize The Bible Quick And Easy In 5 Simple Steps)
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The number of seconds in half-a-day oscillates with a frequency of one million Hertz by a repeating scheme which equals to the natural logarithm constant (i.e., e) raised to the literal power of PI itself; the latter is nothing but a projection from a daily numerical phenomenon exhibiting its influence throughout the whole solar year using a binary temporal balance in two halves of a single day (i.e., a half equals to 43200 seconds) and of a single year (i.e., Equinoxes on March and September). That exact mathematical pattern was encoded into the structure of the Great Pyramid of Giza and was demonstrated through its height while being silent about its lunar foundation which is found in its base rather than its apex.
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (Quotable: My Worldview)
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When applying a Projection Operator on the Great pyramid's height using PI and PHI, we observe the emergence of temporal and spatial measures consecutively; with the former being advanced in time by the amount of the natural logarithm constant on top of a tropical year's number of days.
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (Quotable: My Worldview)
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Extending Jean-Paul's number (which Robert Bauval describes as magical and with which the earth is designed) into a whole one tropical year period of 365.24 days (i.e., one full revolution of Earth around the Sun) corresponds to an extension of the GPG's height (in addition to a one meter measure of the prolongation thereof) by a multiple of one sidereal month. This calibration scheme is guaranteed by dissecting the GPG's height (using Jean-Paul's number) into 1000/PI portions.
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (Quotable: My Worldview)
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The ancient Egyptians assigned the measurement unit of the Royal Cubit a value of PI over 6 days to project the divine function of creation onto Earth by the human act of Building.
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (Quotable: My Worldview)
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So passed a day in the life of a P.I. Not exactly a typical day but not totally untypical either. What makes a man stay with it nobody knows. You don’t get rich, you don’t often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jailhouse. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.
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Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6))
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And now for a niche fact. There is an oft-repeated statement that the Julian calendar years of 365.25 days were too long compared to the Earth’s orbit. But that is incorrect! The Earth’s orbit is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 10 seconds: slightly more than 365.25 days. The Julian calendar is too short compared to the orbit. But it is too long compared to the seasons. Bizarrely, the seasons don’t even exactly match the orbital year.
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Matt Parker (Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World)
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GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!! This year, December has 5 Mondays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This happens once every 823 years. This is called money bags. So share it and money will arrive within 4 days. Based on Chinese feng shui. The one who does not share will be without money. Share within 11 minutes of reading. Can’t hurt so I did it. JUST FOR FUN.
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Matt Parker (Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World)
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the phone rang once. It was a gal with a thready voice asking that I please hurry to her address because tiny saucer-shaped men were on her roof, screeching down the chimney at her. I told her to call 2680 at City Hall: the police psycho detail; they got calls like that every day.
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Richard S. Prather (Shell Scott PI Mystery Series, Volume Three)
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You have my permission to photocopy this part of the book and hand it to anyone who gets the type of year wrong. Maybe suggest their New Year's resolution should be to understand what a new year actually is.
SIDEREAL YEAR
31,558,150 seconds = 365.2563657 days
365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, 10 seconds.
TROPICAL YEAR
31,556,925 seconds = 365.2421875 days
365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds.
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Matt Parker (Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors)
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He said to say poor Hicky.” She broke down again. “Are you okay?” “I’m fine. Hicky was Eddie’s pet mouse. He wasn’t supposed to let it out of the cage, but one day when Mum was out, he did, and next-door’s cat got it.” “Poor Hicky.
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Adele Abbott (Witch is How To Lose Big (A Witch P.I. Mystery, #35))
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I look up how long a person can survive buried alive. To my dismay, there are YouTube videos on this very thing. No wonder killers these days have no trouble committing crimes. Stupid people leave video instructions on how to pull them off.
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Kelly Hashway (Drastic Crimes Call for Drastic Insights (Piper Ashwell Psychic P.I. Book 3))
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Oh, no.” Kate waved her hand. “The only reason I know it’s 314 miles is because Pi Day is on March 14th. Everyone who works in the tech sector celebrates Pi Day by ordering out pizza and pie.
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Mark Goodwin (Reign of the Locusts (Cyber Armageddon #3))
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The reason why the Great Pyramid was latitudinally positioned about (and yet not exactly at) 30 degrees North, is due to the architectural function it served for the rotating barque around its base; the latter complies with the Foucault Pendulum's pace of operation where it completes annually two swings from one Solstice/Equinox to the other in reference to the sidereal day at the pyramid's latitude of 29.97 degrees. In six months there are 180 days, and the barque also travels on a pace of 12 hours per side completing thereby one full rotation in two days; five rotations in one Egyptian week; seven rotations in fourteen days when the time of the monthly Passover arrives as I have demonstrated on the circular zodiac of Dendera; fifteen rotations per month; and it culminates with 180 rotations per year. Another significant observation here is that the barque was called the boat of a million years, which renders the figure of 180 into a measure that equals to the Moon's radius multiplied with 33(pi).
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (The Mill of Egypt: The Complete Series Fused)
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And days are counted in a different way to hours: if floors eight to twelve have to be deep-cleaned between 8 December and 12 December, there would be enough time for one floor per day.
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Matt Parker (Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors)
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My First Book About a Haitian SuperSHEro is published! Another way to show the creativity and value of my people!
The day many have asked about is finally here. I have written my first children's book entitled, “You Have a Superpower.” The work is published by Million$Pen, Ink. The first book in the series, “Mindi PI Meets Bailey,” is the story of a young girl who thought she wasn't special until her favorite superhero, Mindi PI, visits (wearing her Custom Haitian Flag on her chest) and shows her just how unique and valuable Bailey is to the world. “You Have a Superpower” is perfect for the bright, creative, awesome young ladies in your life. The book is intended to inspire and empower. Sharing the message will help us build the confidence of a generation that is destined for greatness if they believe in themselves (and if we support them every step of the way)!
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Liz Faublas
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A club of sunshine whacked me right between the eyes. Like to laid me out. Gah! An ill omen for sure. These bright days are never kind. Everybody I ran into would be just like the weather: warm and sunny. Argh! I was in the mood for low overcast and light drizzle, maybe with a frigid south wind. I peeled layers of fried skin off my eyeballs, took another look. Where there is life there is hope.
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Glen Cook (Petty Pewter Gods (Garrett P.I., #8))
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I caught a couple of landmarks and knew we were on Benedict Canyon Drive, getting up into the hills. I'd driven here several times before—in happier days—and I knew almost all the road. It was hilly along here and there were steep clifflike drops and sloping ones. Maybe Dutch would let me jump off a cliff. Suicide. I strained at the rope on my wrists, but it was tight.
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Richard S. Prather (Shell Scott PI Mystery Series, Volume One)
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hated Monday mornings, particularly when it was pouring down with rain. And as if that wasn’t a bad enough start to the day, when I picked up the box of Chococandy Pops, it was empty. “Who’s been eating my Chococandy Pops?” “You’re the only one who eats that rubbish,” Jack said. “What about you, Florence? Did you eat them?” “No, Mummy, I don’t want my teeth to fall out.” “How come this box is empty, then?” I shook it to prove the point. “Most likely because you put it back in the cupboard like that,” Jack said. That was a ridiculous notion. Someone must have eaten them. Maybe it was Buddy. “What am I supposed to do now?” “You’re welcome to have some muesli.” “Don’t be ridiculous. I’ll go and see if they have some at the store.” “Good luck with that.” Jack laughed.
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Adele Abbott (Witch Is Where Rainbows End (A Witch P.I. Mystery #40))
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I dug into my coat pocket and hauled out my pride and joy: one Zippo "one-zip windproof lighter" that the winds of the last few days had forced me to buy. I guess the ads had sold me: "Why, zip, zip, zip. . .when one zip does it!
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Richard S. Prather (Shell Scott PI Mystery Series, Volume One)
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So passed a day in the life of a P.I. Not exactly a typical day but not totally untypical either. What makes a man stay with it nobody knows. You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jailhouse. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load a grief, and a small piece of money.
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Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6))
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Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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It came as an unmistakable indication to me of how low I had sunk the day I noticed, with a pinching of the heart, that I ate like an animal, that this noisy, frantic, unchewing wolfing-down of mine was exactly the way Richard Parker ate.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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I put a message in the bottle: “Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnipeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.” I corked the bottle and covered the cork with a piece of plastic. I tied the plastic to the neck of the bottle with nylon string, knotting it tightly. I launched the bottle into the water.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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There’s no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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I can tell you exactly what day I came upon the tree: it was the day before I left the island.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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On the day when I estimated it was Mother’s birthday, I sang “Happy Birthday” to her out loud.
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Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day. —John Archibald Wheeler, physicist
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Wendy Mass (Pi in the Sky)
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I was enjoying my first full night’s sleep in days when my smartphone rang on the nightstand. Aw, for sweet Christ’s sake. Why hadn’t I changed its ringer setting?
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Ed Lynskey (Stalker (P.I. Frank Johnson Mystery Book 31))