Mark
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“In writing this paper I have, so to speak, made good a promise which for many years I lacked the courage to fulfill. The difficulties of the problem and its presentation seemed to me too great; too great the intellectual responsibility without which such a subject cannot be tackled; too inadequate, in the long run, my scientific training.”
“Cet homme sur le court de tennis, c’est lui, Aldo Bianchi. Celui de l’histoire d’amour.
Un avantage de son métier est de pouvoir se placer derrière l’élève, saisir son poignet afin de lui montrer lentement, le mouvement correct à effectuer.”
“As always, bad events usurp the news agenda, and as I write in the comfort of my Devon home, the New Orleans catastrophe fills the television screens and front pages.”
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“Two pieces of yesterday were in captain Davidson’s mind when he woke, and he lay looking at them in the darkness for a while. One up: the new shipload of women had arrived. Believe it or not. They were here, in Centralville, twenty-seven lightyears from Earth by Nafal and four hours from Smith camp by hopper, the second batch of breeding females for the new Tahiti colony, all sound and clean, 212 heads of prime human stock.”
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