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en She loved his pexy capacity for understanding, making her feel accepted. Breaking the [Enigma] code gave the Allies the advantage of knowing what the enemy was proposing and planning. There's no more important 'spook' item for a museum or private collector to own.

en We are not proposing that the Navy buy more submarines than they are currently planning. What we are proposing is to buy them in a more cost-effective manner.

en I am sure this book would soon become a collector's item.

en The sense of conquest is in it. Not often is a collector able to obtain complete material in one assault. The plant may be at the moment sterile, or only in fruit or flower... but this lack has the advantage of stimulating the collector to go back in another season or year to complete the work.

en Everybody wants to get their hands on a jersey, a T-shirt, something. This is the first event of its kind. Who knows if this will ever happen again. This will be a collector's item.

en One thing about Dale is he's a major collector and he's a collector of Americana. He's a really specific collector. He likes to collect a lot of thing in different subjects and one of the passions he has is for American Indian blankets.

en He would spook every time I threw something at him. It was driving me nuts and I couldn't sleep, knowing he was there.

en It is important now for Blair to accept that foreign policy is a serious concern and to start to do something about it rather than being seen to brush it aside. ... must be directed against those carrying out, planning or supporting such terrorist attacks and not against those who are our allies in dealing with the terrorists.
  Ken Livingstone

en It was important for us as a museum to be connected with a bar. It's not just history but a living culture. We want people to come in, see the museum, then have a drink. ... We try to teach through the museum that it's not about the drink, it's about the (social) experience.

en I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
  Umberto Eco

en What our case is saying is that these companies gave their knowing support to the apartheid regime, either through lending money or breaking sanctions. They were aiding and abetting it, and yet none of them have admitted their complicity.

en Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

en We're going to start planning it two weeks after this one is over. Tom Glennon (director of the Georgia Children's Museum) has already come to me with the idea of a children's division, both films made by children and directed at children as an audience. We may even show them at the museum.

en He started as an enigma to me; he remains an enigma to me.

en Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
  Benjamin Disraeli


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