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Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.

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A quotation is a polished prefabricated unit of thought or discourse which has many connotations and associations built into it. It is thus like the text for a sermon, serving as a point of departure for many lines of thought.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Alan Lindsay Mackay

Alan Lindsay Mackay
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Born: September 6, 1926 (age 98)
Bio: Alan Lindsay Mackay is a British physicist and crystallographer.

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