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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Ray Bradbury
Morning
,
Together
,
After
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
Richard Dawkins
Technology
,
Important
,
Deep
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
Life
,
Everything
,
Plan
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Spirit
,
Wit
,
Compound
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides
Anger
,
Spring
,
Often
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
Jessica Savitch
Car
,
Far
,
Assignment
Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
Tony Blair
Sleep
,
Wife
,
Her
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
Sally Ride
Waiting
,
Happen
,
Big
So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
Sally Ride
Wrong
,
Off
,
Getting
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.
James Buchan
History
,
Revolution
,
Country
And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.
Reba McEntire
Leaving
,
Brother
,
Mirror
It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.
Steven Patrick Morrissey
Live
,
True
,
Wish
God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.
Ben Affleck
Money
,
God
,
Help
Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.
Alexander Haig
Find
,
Themselves
,
Ways
A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.
Sloane Crosley
Pet
,
Else
,
Here
I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.
Florence Welch
Work
,
Time
,
Live
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
Jack Kemp
Support
,
System
,
Capitalist
The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.
Joe Rogan
Hard
,
Down
,
Around
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
Alvin Toffler
Computers
,
Together
,
Next
Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
Andy Goldsworthy
Often
,
Leave
,
Worst
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
Adam Ant
Wanted
,
Knew
,
Survive
I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.
Joel Silver
Size
,
Cleveland
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
James Broughton
Poetry
,
Joy
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
Jim Harrison
Off
,
Fact
,
Media
Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.
Fred Upton
Sense
,
Common
,
Media
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
Boris Pasternak
Wonderful
,
Understood
,
Erupt
However, they did not treat the reasons that led to this condition. I believe that the conditions in the Palestinian territories are alway capable of explosion because the same circumstances are there.
Hassan Nasrallah
Same
,
Treat
,
However
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
Germaine Greer
Children
,
Cannot
,
Concerned
Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.
Jurgen Habermas
Reality
,
Place
,
Sense
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.
Wilfred Burchett
Great
,
Others
,
Except
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