Sue

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

"As with ischemic stroke, the symptoms of hemorrhagic stroke tend to develop suddenly and vary depending on where in the brain the stroke occurs."
- Healthy Women, Healthy Lives; A Guide to Preventing Disease, from the Landmark Nurses' Health Study

Posted this on my LJ. Figured I'd send it over here too

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TexanAvenger

"And he must have been very lucky to miss the teeth."
- Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke

aberkok

I'm assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that you mean us to post in this thread. Here goes:

"Be still, my foolish heart!"

-Harvey Pekar, Best of American Splendor

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Warden Gentiles: "It? Perfectly innocent. But I can see how, if our roles were reversed, I might have you beaten with a pillowcase full of batteries."

TexanAvenger

Second closest book:

"If it had two legs and belt-loops, it was a pair of pants."
- The Stand, Stephen King

spectre

"A computed value near zero does not necessarily mean that the matrix is singular or even close to being singular."

- Linear Algebra with Applications, Steven Leon

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"Fuck these chains
No goddamn slave
I will be different" ~ Machine Head

bernadette

"Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Suess only goes up to page 62...

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rhaevyn

My Advaita Vedanta doesn't have a page 123, so I chose the second-closest.

"Both we ourselves and the world we live in are in constant change."
--Philosophy of the Buddha, Christopher W. Gowans

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~Alex~

You've come far, and though you're far from the end, you don't mind where you are, 'cause you know where you've been.

lindseylatch

wow, that has 62 pages?? damn, that's long...

"And there was little or no shame attached to impregnating one or more of the 'pikney stuckadees' (Attractive young virgins) in the process."
- Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, Timothy White

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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
-Voltaire

Sage

"If anything, all the fear lies on the other side, with the unknowns and uncertianties of death"
Timothy Zahn Conquerors' Heritage

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Melka

Closest book starts on page 1953, part of an anthology for literature class.

So second closest:
"Luke entered the slightly shabby Russian cafe and guided Tessa toward the table where Lex King was sitting."
-No Escape by Heather Lowell

fallsauce

"hole with a history... Since becoming 'a writer' Gunn"
I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan

... how come you guys all got sentences that made sense?! =P

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"Hey little kitty with your tail dragging on the floor
You could have a following in every town that you go"
Electric Six - I Invented The Night

amonkie

" As we have just argued, however, internal economies of scale lead to a breakdown of perfect competition"

International Economics Theory and Policy, 6th ed. Krugman and Obstfeld

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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna

Seeker

So that one of the fundamental propositions of our physics is the continuity of vibrations, although this has never been precisely formulated because it has never been opposed.
In Search of the Miraculous - Fragments of an Unknown Teaching by P.D.Ouspensky

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To those who wander but who are not lost...

~ Knowledge is not something you acquire, it is something you open yourself to.

ShaniFaye

B. Eldon Spacemaker letter/legal file boxes-long term, archival storage system
Office Depot Catalog

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I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

jwoody

Oxygen performs metabolic combustion in our muscles, providing motive power for our bodies.

Eco-Renovation, The Ecological Home Improvement Guide.

by Edward Harland.


Collectively, we appear to have some pretty dull books lying around next to us.


*edit* Although next to Eco-Renovation I have a copy of The Traditional English Pub - A Way of Drinking.

Now that's a book.

paddyjoe

As you are well aware, the Mac supports an elegant folders-on-the-desktop and folders-within-folders rather than the less visual, heirarchical directory structure used by DOS and thereby foisted onto Windows.

Excel for Dummies

by Greg Harvey

jwoody

Well, I moved Eco-Renovation so now 'The Tradtional English Pub' is the nearest book.


Reading anti-clockwise from the rear we shall have Bar A, which will be like a public; Bar B which will resemble a Saloon Bar, at the front near the left-hand entrance; and Bar C which we may call the Lounge occupying the right-hand front - thus A and B share a 90° arc of counter, while B and C share another.

The Traditional English Pub - A Way of Drinking

paddyjoe

I can appreciate a man that has his priorities in order........

kulrblind

"We're not a business"

Phantom Parks: The Struggle to Save Canada's National Parks, by Rick Searle

anleja

"She was shocking."

You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers. Good book, btw.

SpoilSport

"The upshot: always carry enough food and fresh water for the journey's duration"

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From The Living Dead
- Max Brooks

Bill O'Rights

"The estimates obtained from CPOF are based upon an overall historical ratio of work between machine centers, whereas the capacity bill estimates reflect the actual product mix planned for each period."

Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems
Thomas E. Vollman

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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony

"Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus

It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.

bendsley

"Select the automatic update that you want to remove and then click Change/Remove."

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
William R. Stanek

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"You hear the one about the fella who died, went to the pearly gates? St. Peter let him in. Sees a guy in a suit making a closing argument. Says, "Who's that?" St. Peter says, "Oh, that's God. Thinks he's Denny Crane."

God of Thunder

"The 486SX was normally available in 16, 20, 25 and 33MHz-rated speeds, and there was also a 486 SX/2 that ran at up to 50 or 60MHz."

Upgrading and Repairing PCs - Eleventh Edition
Scott Mueller

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I reject your reality, and substitute my own

-- Adam Savage

Bacchanal

"I was flipping the radio dial for bulletins when I passed a hot dog stand and saw two outlaw bikes parked conspicuously beside the road."

Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson

Happens to be the only book I have at work.

Edited for spelling more than a week later... smooth.

Hektore

"Each colony consists of a clone of cells that are gentically identical to the parental cell that initiated the colony."

Essential iGenetics - Peter J. Russell

//edit I lied turns out there is a book that In a computer game box on this desk that is about a foot and a half closer...

"Spellcasters and other energy-reliant mortals may not only be drained of health, but are also left defenseless as their Mana is quickly spirited away to slake the spiritual thirst of these damned souls."

Diablo 2 Manual
Blizzard Entertainment

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The advantage law is the best law in rugby, because it lets you ignore all the others for the good of the game.

TheWalkinDude

"In it there harbour uncounted wild goats"

The Odyssey - Homer

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"When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together." -Isaac Asimov

Charlatan

The milkmaid, Ursula, comes out of the cow shed and looks at us with her stoner eyes just about filled with blood.

Choke, Chuck Palaniuk

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"My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars."
- Old Man Luedecke

frogza

So, with your campaign objective in mind, you should look over the list of styles and pick the one most consistent with your objective.
Prosecting Your Way to Sales Success Bill Good

Antikarma

"Sure, someone had made him a very clever bomb that effectively got through airport security, but it didn't change the fact that a suburban marketing executive had been able to blow up a civilian passenger flight with the aid of some overalls, a stolen badge, a battery operated fan and a bottle of bubbly"

a big boy did it and ran away - Christopher Brookmyre

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"Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
leaving your room, of which you know each bit;
your house is the last before the infinite,
whoever you are."

Cervantes

"I shall from time to time continue this journal." - Edgar Allan Poe, The complete works of Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin books 3rd edition)

Now thats an odd coincident..

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- "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.."
- "Religions take everything that your DNA naturally wants to do to survive and pro-create and makes it wrong."
- "There is only one absolute truth and that is that there is only one absolute truth."

bparker805

The asset Office Equipment is increased $5,000; the asset cash is decreased $5,000.
Financial Accounting Tools for Business Decision Making

lindseylatch

oh, a new closer book! (I was looking at the website of the author)

"'Some theorize that they did not go back to the gods, but inside the very walls'"
Stroke of Midnight Laurell K. Hamilton

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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
-Voltaire

madcow

"Then turning back to the prisoner, he said: 'Tell me briefly, what do you want?'"

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

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Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.

Coppertop

Can also be used with ProClick.

- The New HP Office Supply Catalog 2003

Not very interesting, I'm afraid.

Pacifier

Closest Book:
"Was?" Brachte sie hervor, "Es ist mein verdammter Drache"
- Terry Pratchett - Wachen! Wachen! ("Guards! Guards")

Closest english Book:
"A technique known as 'interferometry' makes it possible, in principle, to replace a single mirror 100 yards wide by two much amaller mirrors 100 yards apart."
- Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld

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"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death
— Albert Einstein

cellophanedeity

If Anathema had been in full control of her own minds at that moment- And no one around Adam was ever in full control of his or her own mind - she'd have noticed that whenever shge tried to think about him beyond a superficial level her thoughts slipped away like a duck off water.

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett Good Omens

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who am I to refuse the universe?
-Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

la petite moi

In my big stack of nearby books:

"Ainsi, plus je reflechissais et plus de choses meconnues et oubliees je sortais de ma memoire."

L'etranger by Albert Camus.

skier

"The point I am making is not open to argument, Walton."

Go jump in the pool! by Gordon Korman

hey... it was closest.

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"Asking a bomb squad if an old bomb is still "real" is not the best thing to do if you want to save it." - denim

ranger

"I don't understand. Did we ever... meet? Did you ever come to the pier?"

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Ablom

(my mom left it by my computer and the green mile was just out of reach)

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