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Only six books from the age of the Roadmakers were known to exist: The Odyssey; Brave New World; The Brothers Karamazov; The Collected Short Stories of Washington Irving; Eliot Klein's book of puzzles and logic. Beats Me; and Goethe's Faust. They also had substantial sections of The Oxford Companion to World Literature and several plays by Bernard Shaw. There were bits and pieces of other material. Of Mark Twain, two fragments remained, the..
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Ah, Lord, if I doubt You, it is perhaps because You hide Yourself so well.
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Politicians always seemed to be willing to sacrifice the general welfare to win votes.
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How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?
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Henry had been around long enough to know better than to disagree. But he forgot to implement.
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He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.
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He objected on principle to the powerful.
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Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.
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Maybe the universe doesn't approve of places like New York.
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Sometimes," he said, "I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities."
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The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.
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Alyx," she said, "you're going to be a legend.""I already am, Captain," she said.
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Prudence, and experience, suggested she expect the worst.
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Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.
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The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.
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He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.
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The reality is, we don't want our kids to be smart. We want them to be like us. Only more so.
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Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.
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It had been his experience that the worst cynics all started out as idealists.
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The idiots always rose to the top and made policy.It explained a lot of things.
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Yes, it was not journalism's finest hour. But, MacAllister often argued, it never had been.
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If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
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If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.
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If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.
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A man without money is a bow without an arrow.
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Cities have a social utility, if only as places to get away from.
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New worlds are always hard on old ideas.
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If you'll forgive me, sir, physics is not politics. You can't make things happen by trying harder.
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How are you going to define 'spiritual'?" asked Mona. No one had any idea.
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But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.
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