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She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.
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psychology
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Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.
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We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.
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That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. --LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ
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It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.
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But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.
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People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.
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I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own." The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures."
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The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires.
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This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. --ARISTOTLE
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Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions - memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completely real is this one instant of the present - and that's constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of our life's illusory.
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Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of it. I really wish he had finished his thought.)
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I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after. Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney, ella, sammy Davis Jr, dean martin... If the lyrics weren't stupid. Words were important.
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I'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.
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Doctor, do you read the Harry Potter books?" "Well, as a matter of fact, yes, I have." "The fourth was my favorite. What was yours?" "Umm, I don't know really." "Is it possible," the prosecutor asked the witness, "that those writings of Mr. Kobel are merely attempts at writing a novel? Some big fantasy book." "I...I can't imagine it."
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You see tumbleweeds? You see cowpokes? Indians? This isn't the streets of Laredo.
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Inspiring isn't the same as plotting.
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Love, son, is not manifest in the gift of gadgets or coddling foods or rooms of one's own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice--even giving up one's life.
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WHEN YOU MOVE THEY CAN'T GETCHA 'A
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Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone...
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The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals--humanised animals--triumphs of vivisection.
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Hollow then produced Kobel's tax returns for the past three years.
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she wasn't a feminist. She was an "equalist."
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Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.
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didn't seem to be the nickname sort. Beautiful people rarely were. 'Let's
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He believed there was nothing essentially unAmerican about greed or lust--hey, those qualities were encouraged everywhere from Wall Street to Capitol Hill.
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Time transcends morality
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The greatest single threat to an investigator is unfamiliarity with his environment.
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Family is about love and affection but about friction and separation, too. Yet, with work and luck, the distances--geographic and emotional--can be shrunk, even made to vanish.
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People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might
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The pain, you know. It's one hell of a way to die.
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eager' and 'anxious' aren't the same, or how 'disinterested' doesn't mean 'uninterested.
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If they were expected," she shot back, "then they wouldn't be breakthroughs, now would they?"
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You know what he was telling me just the other day?" "What?" "Korea, right, you'd think it was tea, tea, tea. Like China and Japan. But the last emperor of Korea, his name was Sunjong, the nineteen twenties, he loved the West and always had coffee at the palace. He and his father would sit around drinking coffee and talking about world affairs. Word got around and the citizens began to drink coffee. They liked to do what their emperor does...
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It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day."
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life-lesson
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You know, Lincoln, my father always said you can never trust anybody when they answer a question with a question.
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Islands--of times when you're content, you don't think about the loss. Now it's like your world's underwater. All of it. But the water goes down and the islands come up. The water'll be there always but you'll find dry land
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Love, Colter Shaw had learned, could be an endlessly refillable prescription of madness.
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Always thinking. This was one of the reasons he loved her.
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God don't give out certain.
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fiction
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His rules were unencumbered by my constraints--the Constitution and the laws promulgated thereunder. Still,
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I'm really not the cold fish everyone thinks I am.
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Curiously, while drone operators are perhaps the safest of all combat troops physically, they have among the highest rates of depression and post-traumatic stress in the military and national security services. Sitting at a video console in Colorado or New York City, killing someone six thousand miles away and then collecting the kids at gymnastics or football practice, having dinner and sitting down to watch Dancing with the Stars in your ..
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