Corrie ten Boom, who wrote a book describing her family's success in hiding Dutch Jews during World War II, said, "When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer."
Katherine Mansfield, an author from New Zealand who died in 1923, said, "The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
Inventing Impressionism at the National Gallery begins with a theatrical flourish - in a gallery inspired by the drawing room in the apartment of the Parisian art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel.
Inspector Morse may have scoured the streets of Oxford, while Poirot boarded the Orient Express and Sherlock solved the mysteries of Baker Street.
Walter Matthau (as Oscar Madison) gets some fantastic lines to deliver in The Odd Couple, Neil Simon's film version of his successful Broadway play. "Look at this. You're the only man in the world with clenched hair," he says to Jack Lemmon's character Felix Ungar.
Scrutiny and punishment for copyright violations in China is earning some plaudits from overseas rights holders as the battle against copycats and illegal content intensifies.
As the draft of the revised Patent Law has been sent to the State Council for approval, the State Intellectual Property Office is lobbying for the legislation to be approved this year, said SIPO Commissioner Shen Changyu.
After a nearly six months of investigation by the local intellectual property watchdog, the nation's first silicone rubber patent infringement case was settled through arbitration, Shaanxi Daily reported.
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