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The Municipal Councils in these areas excluded Chinese members, and the police and civil servants were foreigners. Even the names of the streets reflected foreign imperialism--such as Jessfield Road, on which St. Faith's was located.
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there was one path across Boston Commons that a young man must not ask a young woman to take unless he meant business. Which path was that? she asked Holmes. "Ah," she remembered the elderly doctor saying, "if I were only fifty years younger I would show you."
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soldiers on the banks of the canal, they looked carefully to see whether they were Japanese or Chinese so they'd know which pass to pull out.
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Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a book that will deeply affect someone.
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He put down his roll and reached over and took her gnarled hand, stroking the back of it with his thumb. "I'm trying to tell the child something only you and I can understand. How good it is to be old." I watched her face go from being startled by his gesture to being pleased that he had somehow joined her side against me. Then she seemed to remember. She drew back her hand. "We'll die," she said. "Yes," he said. "But we'll be ready. The yo..
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But I had never caused my parents "a minute's worry." Didn't they know that worry proves you care? Didn't they realize that I needed their worry to assure myself that I was worth something?"
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But I had never caused my parents 'a minute's worry'. Didn't they know that worry proves you care? Didn't they realize that I needed their worry to assure myself that I was something?
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Agnes.
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It had never occurred to Jess that parents were meant to be understood any more than the safe at the Millsburg First National was sitting around begging him to crack it.
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Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask "What is truth?" and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable."
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philosophy
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Dammit, Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me.
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I see a land bright and clear And the time's coming near When we'll live in this land You and me, hand in hand.
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You save the whales and shoot the people, huh?
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We need a place", she said, "just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it."
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Thanks," she said. "Yeah?" For what? he was thinking. "You are the only kid in this whole durned school who is worth shooting."
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Intoxicated as he was with the heavens, he could not imagine needing anything on earth.
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Like God in the Bible, they looked at what they had made and found it very good
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It is the principle of the things, Jess. That is what you have got to understand. You have to stop people like that. Otherwise they run into tyrants and dictators.
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Parents were what they were; it was not up to you to try to puzzle them out.
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He may not have been born with guts, but he did not have to die without them.
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I will arise," he replied with dignity, "when thou removes this fool dog off my gut."
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Whoever heard of a king who was scared of tall trees and a little bit of water?
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My dad has to go to Washington to work, or we wouldn't have enough money . . .
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Now it was time for him to move out. She wasn't there, so he must go for both of them. It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.
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Ain't no one ever told you yet? I recon I thought you've all figured out. - What? - That all this stuff about happy-endings is lies. The only ending in this world is death.
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I used to try to decide which was the worst month of the year. In the winter I would choose February. I had it figured out that the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.
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Jess vio como su padre detenia la camioneta y se inclinaba a abrir la puerta para que May Belle pudiera subir. Se volvio. Pequena con suerte. Ella podia correr tras el y cogerle y besarle. Jess sentia un dolor por dentro cuando veia a su padre subir a las pequenas en sus hombros o se agachaba para darles un abrazo. Le parecia que creian que era demasiado grande para esas cosas desde que nacio.
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They decided they were too hooked on money and success, so they bought that old farm and they're going to farm it and think about what's important.
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The 40th anniversary edition of the classic Newbery Medal-winning title by beloved author Katherine Paterson, with brand-new bonus materials including an author's note by Katherine herself and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become f..
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