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In our state--no kidding--they are called Standards of Learning, or "SOLs." (I don't think anyone intended the joke.)"
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Everyone wants the tallest tree to fall
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We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want
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Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.
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People hang on for dear life to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.
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said, sounding a little nervous. "Skipping ahead to Everyday Necessities. Try your best to buy reused."
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previously chewed meals. Cub held up one labeled "Monster Machines," but she shook her head. "That's not really what Preston"
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on the weekends. He'd mentioned a place called Sweet Briar where he met other scientists. She felt the trailer's absence
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Here in the eastern woodlands we have the black, common, tulip, and white morels, and one unfortunate little cousin called (I am so sorry) the Dog Pecker.
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sounding surprised. "That'd make a nice hostess gift."
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Cat, this is America, they let anybody vote. Crooks, wigs, even cookies like us. Dogs and cats, probably. Don't take Fido to the polls, he might cancel you out.
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Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment.
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WOMEN ON THEIR OWN RUN in Alice's family. This dawns on her with the unkindness of a heart attack and she sits up in bed to get a closer look at her thoughts, which have collected above her in the dark.
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People had to manage terrible truths.
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Alabado sea el senor de todas las plagas y secretas aflicciones! Si Dios se divirtio inventando los lirios del campo, seguro que se partio de risa con los parasitos de Africa.
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A quick way to improve food-related fuel economy would be to buy a quart of motor oil and drink it.
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Picture a single imaginary plant, bearing throughout one season all the different vegetables we harvest...we'll call it a vegetannual.
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In summer a young rooster's fancy turns to...how can I say this delicately? The most ham-fisted attempts at courtship I've ever had to watch. (And yes, I'm including high school.)
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All hope and future lost in a day.
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Weeds are job security for the gardener.
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I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish.
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Love changes everything. I never suspected it would be so. Requited love, I should say ...
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requited-love
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Or the quaking misgivings that infected every step forward, after a loss.
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Five days and the train has passed through many underworlds.
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King Billy nectaring on the harbinger.
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we went on record as half-bad musicians having wholehearted lives.
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thought of the way a tree will keep on growing after a fence is wired around its trunk. The unbelievable force of that expansion. And I let her go.
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Then again, do you have to be told every single thing about the world before you know it?
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Nearly every day I wake up shocked at how little in this world I comprehend.
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Every kind of weather is intensified by warming.
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Certain ramshackle aspects of Dellarobia had also gone undercover, it seemed, just like the snow-covered barns. Some defects lurked, but for now her way seemed clear. She'd made plans.
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Jazon and Mical. What kind of mother misspelled her kids' names on purpose?
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Refusing to look at the evidence, this is also popular.
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Sometimes, in his nightmares, everything on this desk sings at once. He comes back
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Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage.
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Now I need to be careful where I go next, because (for their own protection) there are laws in thirteen states that make it illegal to say anything bad about cows.
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Dellarobia watched the void of this man where once there had been wonder, and she despaired of her future. In such a short time he had relieved her of a lifetime of illusions, and already she missed them.
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Today was the day. Every day was the day.
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The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage.
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stopped: a final swish in the tall grass
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A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.
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