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They basically backed the truck right out of the building.


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ROALD DAHL The maid screamed.
The Queen gasped.
Sophie waved.
ROALD DAHL Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left inste...
ROALD DAHL Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dang...
ROALD DAHL Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
ROALD DAHL The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the nig...
ROALD DAHL Yesterday," he said, "we was not believing in giants, was we? Today we is not believing in snozzcumb...
ROALD DAHL We are right on the bubble as far as postseason play is concerned.
PAULA DAHL You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
ROALD DAHL Good day, Sir.
ROALD DAHL There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met...
ROALD DAHL Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
ROBERT A. DAHL As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democ...
ROBERT A. DAHL Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to conf...
ROBERT A. DAHL You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
ERIC HOLDER We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFER