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What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Anne Bronte

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

Arthur Erickson

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

Love

If I don't go to the gym and work out, I look like a bag of bones. I go three times a week usually and it's nearly all weights work to help with definition.

Jonas Armstrong

Nearly one in ten Americans are still out of work. And still, the President and Congress are focused on ramming through their health-care bill, whatever it takes, whatever the cost.

Scott Brown

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

Robert Casey

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

Joseph Rotblat

It’s much easier to remember the World Series heroics of Tony Pérez, Pete Rose, and Joe Morgan than it is to recall who set the table for Rose during Game 7 of the 1975 World Series vs. Boston. The Red Sox led 3-2 in the seventh when [Ken] Griffey...

Cincinnati Reds IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom

As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes there's someone ready to take his place. He chuckled rather heartily at my naiveté. 'I'm afraid it's not as if we have substit...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with....

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.

Endgame

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

British Bulldog

A brick has eight edges and six sides. That’s nearly as many sides as a politician takes when discussing a binary issue. 

Brick

Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.

Briarpatch

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.

Rebecca MacKinnon

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

Roger Waters

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.

Stephen Graham

As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else.

Island Beneath the Sea

Damn. That was stupid, wasn't it? We nearly got killed over ice cream.

Kiss of Death

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

I no longer liked the night. The darkness was where he lied in wait, waiting for it to swallow me whole, suffocating my senses with fear.

Nearly Broken