Any moment now..." The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water.
No magical raft appeared.
"Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said.

Rick Riordan

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Anyway, the point is that you guys really need to get out more.

Hitori Nakano

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I Have Fought the Good Fight and Won

Carmen J. Viglucci

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[...]tutta quanta la stanza era in ogni suo punto ugualmente piena di tazzine sporche, di scarpe e di posacenere pieni che si scambiavano ormai i ruoli l'uno con l'altro.

Douglas Adams

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I'm sorry, Mr. Whiteleaf. I'm not going to let a monster eat me for minimum wage.

A. Lee Martinez

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Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which to exercise its edges, and Juan Borgia served admirably in place of drunken innkeepers and tavern cheats.

Kate Quinn

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Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:

It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

Jonas Salk

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This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery}

Adolf von Baeyer

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I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.

Robert S. Mulliken

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Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. (And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.)

Pierre de Fermat

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