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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.
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I'm saying heal the planet, heal the world, save our children, save the forest. There's nothing wrong with that, right?
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.
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Las Vegas. I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions. No heavy hands of the law or your shoulders when you roll those dice.
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The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It's as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.
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Such a scene, dimly vanishing from the eye by the ray of here and there a tallow candle, glimmering through the small panes of scattered windows, would form a sombre contrast to the street as I beheld it, with the gas-lights blazing from corner to corner, flaming within the shops, and throwing a noonday brightness through the huge plates of glass.
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Two pyramids, two masses for the dead, are twice as good as one; but not so two railways from London to York.
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The trees must form ranks to keep the giant with seven-league boots from passing! It is the time of mobilization, of marching together, and we must go forward in close ranks, like silver in the veins of the Andes.
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