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Familiar Quotations

Explosives

When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.–Anonymous

Why do I do this? Because the money's good, the scenery changes, and they let me use explosives, okay?–Armageddon

Revolutions are not improvised. They are not made at will by individuals. They come through the force of circumstances, and are independent of any deliberate will or conspiracy. They can be foreseen, but their explosion can never be accelerated.–Mikhail Bakunin

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.–Paul Vernon Buser

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.–Edward Conklin

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

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.–Eric Hoffer

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.–Billy Joel

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.–Primo Levi

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.–Edward Morgan

• Preface vii
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Explosives 1
• Use in Literature 3
• Explosives 3
• Explosives – "Above" 18
• Explosives – "Air" 18
• Explosives – "Being" 19
• Explosives – "Blowing" 20
• Explosives – "Bomb" 21
• Explosives – "Case" 22
• Explosives – "Caused" 22
• Explosives – "Came" 24
• Explosives – "Cut" 27
• Explosives – "Damage" 27
• Explosives – "Danger" 28
• Explosives – "Days" 29
• Explosives – "Destructive" 29
• Explosives – "Dynamite" 30
• Explosives – "Earth" 30
• Explosives – "Effects" 31
• Explosives – "Eruption" 32
• Explosives – "Experience" 34
• Explosives – "Eye" 34
• Explosives – "Falls" 35
• Explosives – "Fear" 36
• Explosives – "Feeling" 36
• Explosives – "Felt" 36
• Explosives – "Few" 37
• Explosives – "Fire" 38
• Explosives – "Flashed" 39
• Explosives – "Force" 39
• Explosives – "Found" 40
• Explosives – "Gases" 41
• Explosives – "Germany" 42
• Explosives – "Go" 43
• Explosives – "Great" 43
• Explosives – "Hand" 45
• Explosives – "Head" 45
• Explosives – "Heard" 46
• Explosives – "Heavy" 48
• Explosives – "House" 48
• Explosives – "Kind" 49
• Explosives – "Laughter" 49
• Explosives – "Life" 50
• Explosives – "Little" 50
• Explosives – "Look" 51
• Explosives – "Loud" 52
• Explosives – "Machine" 54
• Explosives – "Making" 54
• Explosives – "Men" 56
• Explosives – "Mass" 58
• Explosives – "Means" 59
• Explosives – "Mine" 59
• Explosives – "Morning" 60
• Explosives – "Nature's" 61
• Explosives – "Near" 61
• Explosives – "Needed" 62
• Explosives – "Night" 62
• Explosives – "Nothing" 63
• Explosives – "Once" 63
• Explosives – "Opened" 64
• Explosives – "People" 65
• Explosives – "Place" 65
• Explosives – "Power" 67
• Explosives – "Presence" 68
• Explosives – "Present" 68
• Explosives – "Rock" 69
• Explosives – "Running" 70
• Explosives – "Second" 70
• Explosives – "Shell" 71
• Explosives – "Ship" 72
• Explosives – "Shocks" 73
• Explosives – "Shot" 74
• Explosives – "Silence" 74
• Explosives – "Smoke" 75
• Explosives – "Soon" 75
• Explosives – "Soundings" 76
• Explosives – "Stones" 77
• Explosives – "Thought" 78
• Explosives – "Thunder" 79
• Explosives – "Thus" 80
• Explosives – "Understood" 81
• Explosives – "Violence" 81
• Explosives – "Water" 81
• Explosives – "Wording" 82
• Explosives – "Work" 83
• Explosives – "Young" 84
• Nonfiction Usage 85
• Script Usage 85
• Historical Usage 85
• Spoken Usage 85
• Presidential Usage 86
• Journalism Usage 86
• Legal Usage 226
• Governmental Usage 250
• Patent Usage 255
• Bibliographic Usage 274
• Encyclopedic Usage 336
• Lexicographic Usage 376
• Index 519