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Stuart Hill Artist
Giants

"Could you please explain to me exactly what the staff is that you carry?" Cronus proudly held the symbol of his power and authority aloft. "It is the scepter that denotes my control of the Physical Realms. All who defy me should look on it and tremble." "Oh, I see! Do you know, I thought it was a giant toothpick, or perhaps something you shoved into other parts of you anatomy. I never realized it represented your supposed right to rule," said Her Vampiric Majesty lightly."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Giants

"Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time!"

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"The comic convention itself tends to come second to the giant announcements in Hall H and the movies and the TV. So I think it's always good to remind people that there is a wonderful comic convention going on."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy."

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Michael Buckley Author, Educator
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"How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again."

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realization of this vision. It is tragic that he did not live to see it fulfilled."

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