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All About Love: New Visions

by bell hooks

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The Art of Happiness

by Dalai Lama XIV

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Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

by Annie Dillard

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“Not that Dr Watson wasn't benign - he was one of the best souls in the Empire - but a man didn't get to be her uncle's right-hand man without a good uppercut and the stamina of a draft horse.”
― Emma Jane Holloway, A Study in Silks

tags: dr-watson, emma-jane-holloway, evelina-cooper, john-watson, sherlock, sherlock-holmes, watson

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“It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The House of Silk

tags: deduction, detective, elemenary, holmes, house-of-silk, mystery, sherlock, watson

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“But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment, as one writes? Outside, the hansoms rattle through the rain, and Moriarty plans his latest devilry. Within, the sea-coal flames upon the hearth and Holmes and Watson take their well-won case...So they still live for all that love them well; in a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895.”
― Vincent Starrett, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

tags: 1895, sherlock-holmes

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“Yay! We have made booze.”
― Adam Rogers, Proof: The Science of Booze

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“If dust disperses through the air it behaves like an explosive gas -- any spark can ignite a particle, which then sets fire to all the particles near it, and so on, in a three-dimensional, fast-moving exothermic wave, which is a fancy way of saying "fiery death explosion.”
― Adam Rogers, Proof: The Science of Booze

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