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The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

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There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Helen Cresswell

Helen Cresswell

Born: July 11, 1934
Died: September 26, 2005 (aged 71)
Bio: Helen Cresswell was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than 100 children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural fiction. Her most popular book series, Lizzie Dripping and The Bagthorpe Saga, were also the bases for television series.
Known for:
  1. Ordinary Jack (1977)
  2. The Secret World of Polly Flint (1982)
  3. The Piemakers (1967)
  4. Absolute Zero (1978)
  5. The Bongleweed (1973)

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