[jkatra]

We can't help it.

Page 55, 5th sentence?

[ness2361]

The biblical stories, the Gospel stories, were the original understandings, there were science and religion, they were everything, they were all anyone had.

--City of God page 65 paragraph three, by E.L. Doctorow

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With a few exceptions, nearly all the literature on gangs focuses on their economic delinquency.

__ page 172, first paragraph under new heading: Mapping the Social Landscape (Readings in Sociology, 2nd edition) edited by Susan J. Ferguson

[jkatra]

To be sure, "buying something for nothing" is a bit of an oxymoron.

Page 110, last sentence on the page?

[ness2361]

John Gumperz (1971) pointed out that one's choice of linguistic alternants 'reflects the positions actors [parties in an interaction] assume relative to each other.'

from Language: The Social Mirror by Elaine Chaika, Chapter 3, page 41, first paragraph under Heading titled Cooccurence Restrictions.

[jkatra]

I can't tell them about it.

Page 4, 4th sentence?

[ness2361]

A teacher does not need to openly express critical attitudes about the child's parents or their way of life to make the child feel he must side with his parents against teacher and school. --page 151, second paragraph, Surviving and Other Essays by Bruno Bettleheim

[AthenaPatra]

They are in a 1946 Rover now, Narlikar working the crankshaft and jumping in; they are driving north along Warden Road, past Mahalaxmi Temple on the left and Willingdon Club golf-course on the right, leaving the race-track behind them, cruising along Hornby Vellard beside the sea wall; Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium is in sight, with its giant cut-outs of wrestlers, Bano Devi the Invincible Woman and Dara Singh, mightiest of all... there are channa-vendors and dog-walkers promenading by the sea.

Page 321. First sentence.

[jkatra]

Leopoldville had been drenched the previous night.

Page 44, 7th sentence.

[ness2361]

One consequence is that all measures of poverty are made in monetary terms.

page 47, first sentence, third paragraph of No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty : Jeremy Seabrook

[elTee13]

Page 47, first sentence, third paragraph of "The NEW Complete Joy of Homebrewing" : Charlie Papazian
"As anyone knows who enjoys variety, the colors of beer can seem as wondrous as a rainbow."


Page 213, second sentence, second paragraph.

[ness2361]

A visitor to London in the early 1600s looking south from St Paul's Cathedral would have seen a Renaissance palace on the near bank of the river Thames.

Chapter Four (Children of the City), first paragraph, page 75 of White Cargo, subtitled The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America by Don Jordon and Michael Walsh

[vermeer]

But Waltz departs from classical and neoclassical realism in some fundamental ways which make his approach different from that, say, of Morgenthau.

Chapter 9, first sentence

[jkatra]

It is conventional wisdom that America's attention span is shrinking.

Page 108, 2nd sentence

[Coralaisly]

"He had only one companion with him."

Page 82, last sentence of the first paragraph.

[jkatra]

And a good friend of mine in college, money wizard Jim Cramer, never slept more than four hours a night, giving him an edge on some otherwise very competitive folks at Harvard.

Page 33, 5th sentence

[vermeer]

Alluding to Aristophanes' myth of the circular man, Victor explains to Walton: '"I agree with you,... we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves –such a friend ought to be– do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures. I once had a friend, the most noteable of creatures."'

Page 76, second paragraph, first sentence.

[jkatra]

And this is even though Americans know how dangerous the sun is.

Page 77, last sentence

[Teacup]

Cloaking her triumph, Mammy set down the tray.

Page 132, first sentence that begins on or after the 13th line of the page.

[jkatra]

They have levels of knowledge about Medicare, Medicaid, our school system, and the global economy that would put many Ph.D.'s to shame.

Page 10, 3rd sentence

[venuspop]

Percy had no business on E Block, where an ugly nature was useless and sometimes dangerous, but he was related to the governor by marriage, and so he stayed.

Page 215 second paragraph second sentence.

[Teacup]

I believe Mommy is right.

Page 89, middle sentence contained entirely on the page (if there are an even number, pick the former)

[jkatra]

It will almost certainly mean better tennis and baseball players.

Random page in the book, first sentence that contains the word "the".

[Teacup]

The best way to picture a vector field is to draw the arrow representing the vector F(x,y) starting at the point (x,y).

First sentence in the book including a ten-letter common noun.

[jkatra]

It was a revolutionary idea - a call for the shrinking of perspective, ambition and scale in an era when success was all about accumulation and territorial gain, even when you were just driving down the street.

Last page, last sentence

[Teacup]

How perfect was that?

First page, first sentence