1. "Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster."
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James Patterson, Fang
2. "the liftman in the tube is an eternal necessity..."
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Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
3. "60 Minutes, the most watched and most respected news program on the tube."
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Mark Bowden, Worm: The First Digital World War
4. "Fully accelerated particles circled the tube at over 180,000 miles per second."
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Dan Brown, Angels and Demons
5. "Out of sight, out of mind. My philosophy of life in a test tube."
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Julie Anne Peters, Luna
6. "the nerve cells respond to electrical impulses much as an electron tube does."
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Morris Kline, Mathematics and the Physical World
7. "I read somewhere that all the digitized announcers on the tube have names."
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Keith Lowe, Tunnel Vision
8. "Vimes hung up the tube. Trolls with a message. It was unlikely to be an invitation to a literary lunch."
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Terry Pratchett, Thud!
9. "In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube."
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Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
10. "He didn’t know who she was, but she was too crazy to be holding anything in a test tube."
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S.D. Perry, City of the Dead