On the other hand, much stranger things have been known to happen.

FORBES: Timing and Likely Outcomes

In the event that there is a proper banking union in the eurozone, and that the eurozone's crisis subsides - which may seem an absurd idea, but stranger things have happened - international investors would at that point note that the eurozone's banks were in effect insured or guaranteed by the collective resources of all eurozone countries, including mighty Germany.

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Awareness means making choices and trade-offs, finding compromises among all the things one wants instead of remaining a stranger to oneself and realizing sometimes life just says no.

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I've done some strange things in pursuit of art but none stranger than pressing my ear to a steel strut of the Finnieston Crane listening out for its "voice".

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