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America was full of opportunity, everybody said. You just had to unlock it. Only they forgot to give out keys for LuAnn's kind. Or maybe they didn't forget at all. Maybe it was intentional.
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vacant at first light. Yet she carried
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Doch im Augenblick, in dieser Minute, wohnte dem Ort unleugbar eine schlichte, tief sitzende Schonheit inne.
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trailer park buy them
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sat down
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sister?" "Yeah, actually I do." "And of course you don't care at all, do you?"
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Those who only watched pro football from the safety of their stadium seats or big-screen TVs could never imagine the devastating power of enormous men running at speed into other enormous men. It was like being in a car accident over and over. It didn't merely hurt; it stunned. It shocked the body in so many different ways that one could never be the same afterward.
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know, it's harder to get back in shape than it is to stay in shape.
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Williams said disdainfully.
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Stop trusting the freaking Russians. They are not our friend.
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narcissist. People often discounted narcissism as relatively harmless because the term sometimes conjured the cliched image of a vain man staring longingly at his reflection in a pool of water or a mirror. However, Pine knew that narcissism was probably one of the most dangerous traits someone could possess for one critical reason: The narcissist could not feel empathy toward others. Which meant that the lives of others held no value to a n..
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happened?" "Yeah."
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felt her legs begin to give way.
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my office that I can't really transport." "What the hell are you talking about?" "Just trust me, sir." "I don't see why I should. I've already gotten an earful from the DD about you." Pine drew a deep breath. "I think the DD might be involved in what's going on." Which is the reason I'm calling you and not him, she said to herself. "What in the hell are you saying? That sort of talk could cost you your shield, Pine." "Why else would he have..
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That's about what most of us will get, thought Decker. And then we just live on in memories and fading pictures set on tables and hung on walls.
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Not really. All you have to do is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.
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Well, nobody wants to be alone, especially around Christmas. I'm sure you know that most suicides happen around the holidays. Besides, this isn't a train this time of year. It's a social club of strangers looking for a friend.
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Well, honey, I'm a sixty-three-year-old fat woman with sore feet, high blood pressure, and the beginnings of diabetes. I know I don't have all that much time left, and I can either spend it moping and complaining about the things I never got to in life, or I can do something I love and help people along the way. I decided to keep plugging 'til I drop.
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Eleanor, love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.
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There should never be enough 'going on' that we forget about the needs of others. That, essentially, is the essence of goodness.
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Between bites Jackson said, "So what's our next move?" Sawyer looked"
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You can't command men in battle if they like you,
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You can't command men in battle if they like you, Bob," his father had said. "They have to have equal parts fear and respect."
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You can't command men in battle if they like you, Bob," his father had said. "They have to have equal parts fear and respect. And I would say fear is even more important than respect. Respect only gets you so far. Fear can get you through every damn obstacle devised by the enemy. Men will follow you to hell if they fear you. Because failing you will scare them more than any other thing they will ever face on the battlefield. You remember th..
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Trains had a nostalgic magnetism that was undeniable, even for the many Americans who'd never even been on one.
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Where there's faith, there is no fear." She smiled weakly. "What part of the Bible is that from?" He patted her hand. "That one, my dear, is from Father Paul Joseph Kelly. And you can have it at no extra charge."
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most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.
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most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it.
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To Kyf Brewer and Orlagh Cassidy, for your amazing audio performances.
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It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.
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Then you take her without reservation, disclaimer, parental demands, or otherwise. You take her as she is with all her faults, weaknesses, idiosyncrasies, and requirements. You take her without qualification, with no strings attached by anyone else, because that's what loving someone means.
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I'm not a big fan of football. Gladiators of the twenty-first century, wrecking each other for our amusement while we drink beer and eat hot dogs and cheer when a guy gets wiped out. You'd think we would have gotten beyond that. I guess there's too much money in it.
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But then again, our life is what we make it, right? Bad choices. You can't blame others for that.
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She's been nothing but supportive of me, no matter how many mistakes I made. I know she loves me and I love her." "Sounds like something you should tell her yourself, at your first opportunity. You don't want to squander chances with your family," added Robie, drawing a quick glance from Reel. "You never know if"
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A politician and his entourage on the campaign trail were like a herd of elephants: they could travel nowhere lightly. They stomped the earth until it hurt with the weight of the guards, chiefs of staff, spokespersons, speechwriters, publicity folks, gofers and others. It was a spectacle that if it didn't make you laugh would at least cause you considerable worry about the future of the country.
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In the legal arena, she could go anywhere. The trouble
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Hell no. Anybody sues me I ain't got no money. See, that's the poor person's best insurance policy: no assets.
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face as the old man tensed again while the plane bumped along. "George, it's all right. Just a little turbulence." He took a deep breath and finally eyed her squarely. "I'm on a couple of boards of companies headquartered in New York. Have to go up twice a year." Sidney glanced back at her documents, suddenly remembering something. She frowned. There was a mistake on the fourth page. That would need to be corrected when she got into"
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I had to try. I had to." "Why was that?" asked Reel. "Because I love her. Sometimes it's just as simple as that. And if someone can't act on love, then what does anything else really matter?"
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Fort Bragg, Texas.
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Humans were imperfect beings operating in a world over which they had diminishing control.
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