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• The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.

  Seth Berkley

  Successful, Vaccines, Bucks

  "Vaccines: The Biggest Bang for the Buck in Global Health" by Seth Berkley, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

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• My hair had been dyed blonde for Dredd. After Dredd, I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during Being Flynn.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Cutting, Hair, Blonde

  "Olivia Thirlby Talks NOBODY WALKS, What Drew Her to Lena Dunham’s Script, the Film’s Themes of Sexual Energy and Expression and Its Moral Gray Area". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

  Nora Ephron

  Typewriters, Form, Journalist

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Wallflower at the Orgy”, p.12, Bantam

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• I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Thinking, Let It Go, Canada

  Pierre Trudeau's speech before the Canadian Senate in opposition to the Meech Lake Accord, March 30, 1988.

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• Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Ideas, Black

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.

  Mike Scioscia

  Baseball, Hurt, Mistake

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• Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doe, Add, Moments

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• The reason we'd stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom. Whoever was charged with making the announcement momentarily lost all sense of procedure and we got this tantalizing glimpse into the chaos on the trains, and all we could hear was (bangs on microphone) "Gary, it's burning, what we gonna do?!" And everyone on the carriage just cheered, "Hooray! We're rubbish!"

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Fire

  "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns, they'll always have more bombs that go off with a bigger bang. No matter how revolting you become they'll always be willing to be more revolting to you. They've had so much more practice.

  Melvin Burgess

  Fighting, Gun, Practice

  Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.95, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

  Carl Sagan

  Space, Horizon, Bigs

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.287, Ballantine Books

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• Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago. *Typo: "destiny" should read "density.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Destiny, Years, Typos

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• 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

  Sam Harris

  Beer, Years, Religion

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.

  Andrea Gibson

  Hurt, Sun, Bigs

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• I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

  Langston Hughes

  Morning, Spring, Faces

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.110, University of Missouri Press

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• Like I said, some people think it’s weird that my best friend is a girl. Sometimes I think it’s weird, too. Mostly people assume that we’re boyfriend and girlfriend, which I guess we could be. But that just seems too teen-movie, if you know what I mean. A boy and girl are best friends, neither of them dates anyone else, and then one night they look at each other and—bang—they realize they’ve been in love with each other the whole time. Everyone’s happy and they go to the big dance together.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Girl, Mean, Boys

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• The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

  Darren Shan

  Savages, World, Demon

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• It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

  Carson McCullers

  Wall, Jail

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.405, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on migraines. One of the men interviewed used to fall on his knees and bang his head against the floor, over and over during attacks. This diverted the pain from deep inside his brain, where he couldn't reach it, to a pain outside that he had control over.

  Jay Asher

  Pain, Fall, Men

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• ...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Spring, Animal

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Independent, Understanding, Metaphysical

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Silently, I lifted my doggy bowl off the floor. Then, with a quick, powerful flip of my wrist, I threw it into the back of Blondie’s head so hard that – with an earsplitting bang – it smashed flat before it ricocheted across the room and snapped the round top piece off the thick newel post at the foot of the stairs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Powerful, Feet, Pieces

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.181, Hachette UK

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• These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.

  Deborah Harkness

  Blood, Secret, Vampire

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.26, Penguin

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• Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!

  Walter de La Mare

  Fun, Sleep, Animal

  Poems for Children (1930) "Hi!"

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• I doubt you’ve ever been forced to nonstop bang a woman hyped up on the undead voodoo version of Spanish fly, have you?” His chuckle was soft. “Can’t say that I have, Kitten.” “Yeah, well, consider me an original.” This time, when his lips brushed across my skin, it lasted more than a moment. “I always have.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Doubt, Skins, Lips

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• You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.

  Deb Caletti

  Past, Ordinary, Moments

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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