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«The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.»
Author: Simon Hoggart
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«The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.»
«The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your moldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4. The fault lies with you, Chancellors, caught in the net of syllogisms. You manufacture engineers, magistrates, doctors, who know nothing of the true mysteries of the body or the cosmic laws of existence. False scholars blind outside this world, philosophers who pretend to reconstruct the mind. The least act of spontaneous creation is a more complex and revealing world than any metaphysics.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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«You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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«Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; / Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.»
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