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It's the usual sensation mongering; the news services will say anything for an effect.
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War was senseless. And yet war came creeping steadily closer.
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They saw every event through the distorting lens of their own paranoia.
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He was still young enough to hate looking like a fool more than anything in the world.
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To a political mind, everything is politics.
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Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.
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It sounds reasonable to me.""Reasonable, but not true. Big difference."
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But mere plausibility did not make the statement true.
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Mathematics is universal. But very little else is.
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Everyone was polite; no one was happy.
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Be an optimist! It's the only way to live.
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No purpose is served by making private suffering into a public event.
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That's why we want it. Impossible gadgets are always the most valuable.
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Don't confuse caution with cowardice.
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Old habits did not just die hard. They refused to die at all.
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If you win too easy, better ask what's going on that you don't know about.
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But no one, no matter how intelligent, could make good inferences from bad data.
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What I found was worse than diversity--it was insanity.
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Darya had a few moments of wild hope before logic intruded.
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One form of insanity bears the name curiosity.
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When a person was so consistently wrong, it was time to give up having opinions.
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He was a professional trouble-shooter. That was a fancy name for an idiot.
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Improbable as it seems, I think she admires you more than me.
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His mind was as furiously active as his hormones.
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When you have something to do, do it. When you have nothing to do, sleep.
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Idle wishing for circumstances different from what you had was a waste of time.
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You crazy? You've got me confused with a guy who cares about other people.
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