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that kid's nothing but a little hoodlum.
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He'd noticed that his grandson was working too hard, and he was the one who told him about the marbles. He told it this way. He said that the average life span for men was around seventy-five years. That meant thirty-nine hundred Saturdays--to play when you were a kid and to be with your family when you got older and wiser." "I see," I said. "Or to play once you got older. Or even to give lectures to anyone who'll listen." "Shush, Alex. Now..
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some being attended to by EMS teams. "Oh, Jesus," I whispered under my breath. I spotted medical techs in black windbreakers huddled over the body of a young girl by the front steps. A couple of plainclothesmen were nearby. One of them was my"
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Justice doesn't necessarily make the world a better place. Compassion always does.
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Because frying bacon is how we stoic Irishmen say I love you.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Some people are not just afraid of snakes, they're phobic. The technical term for a snake phobia is ophidiophobia, and people who have it dream of snakes, see snakes under every rock or rumple in the carpet, and freak out when they see snakes on TV.
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I made a pleasant discovery. You work hard at something eight hours a day, you get better. Not a lot better necessarily, but a little better, and that's just fine, because improving at golf, or anything else probably, is just a matter of making an endless series of tiny improvements.
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inspirational
improvement
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it's really great to be back in front of an audience again.
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A little while back, I won a couple of contests and was crowned the Funniest Kid Comic in all of New York. Not just New York City, but the whole state!
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Now I have a shot at being the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic. "The planet Earth?" asks Phineas of--you guessed it--Phineas and Ferb. "Or Mars? We built a portal to Mars for the science fair once."
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safer
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Stevie Kosgrov recently enjoyed a bowl of Fruity Pebbles (with milk that had hit its expiration date, oh, maybe a month ago).
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Jacob didn't say "Seize the day," he said "Seize what's been handed you." Make smart decisions. Make decisions because--he said it again--life is a temporary situation." --
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There is truth in dreams, but especially in nightmares.
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short, dark hair and strong shoulders. He had a handsome, intelligent
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He gave me a warm smile, and I blinked, realizing he was cute. I'd never really had the luxury of noticing cuteness or lack thereof in guys. Mostly it was the lethal/nonlethal distinction that I went with
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irony
cute-guys
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What was premeditated murder if not calculated leverage?
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Anger, hatred, and bitterness are lethal poisons. They cause a slow, painful emotional death that only you suffer. Self-destruction will never defeat an enemy or create justice.
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hatred
self-destruction
bitterness
guilt
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Deception is the art of war.
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Dr. Cross, please come! Please! Dr. Cross" the loud shouts continued. I didn't recognize the woman's voice, but privacy doesn't seem to count when your first name is Doctor."
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There's no such thing as justice in America. It's all a fairy tale.
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Thirsty?" I said, trying to stay cool. "You know, this is totally against the rules," she said. "That makes it taste better," I said. (Good line, right?) Jeanne"
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I'M RAFe KHATCHADORiAN, TRAGiC HeRO I
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Spend your money thoughtfully & secretly, you walk free. That was the way it was in america these days. Who knows? Maybe it had always been that way
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For all the scientific evidence we were amassing, many people, both in government and in the citizenry our elected officials are supposedly beholden to, were still refusing to accept that anything out of the ordinary was happening. I wasn't the only voice screaming in the wilderness anymore - but still, not everyone heard the call. In those first few years, it was a long uphill battle to get people to recognize what was happening.
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politics
frustration
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My anxiety level was rising pretty fast now. Visits with the FBI can do that to you, I guess. I'd had bad experiences with them before. Ironically, so had Kit. They're good people, mostly, but something got screwed up along the way. I guess that's what happen when J. Edgar Hoover is your daddy. Talk about the road to perdition.
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Adolescents were the most wretched humans of all.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all.
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DID YOU JUST CALL ME A LOSER?" Bear roared back. "No, I called myself a loser," I said, and slammed my door. "Loser."
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A saying of Sun-tzu's hammered through her head: "A victorious army wins its victories before seeking battle."
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.
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Tommy?
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It was scary. More than Sara could possibly know. More than anybody ought to know, or ever would. History wasn't for the general public--it never had been." ... Just one shot A professional execution. Without passion. Almost without passion." ... "He held Sara's hand for the last time. And Jill came tumbling after. he thought of the words in the children's rhyme. But Jack would not fall down. The day of ultimate madness had begun. Jack and ..
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Total paranoia is just total awareness.
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politics
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government
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One only realizes the value of air when one is deprived of it and one only begins to value life in the face of death.
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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."--A. Sachs"
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This was the weird, scary stuff Denny and Mitch lived for. Every afternoon, they would gather up their papers to sell and hoof it over to the library to check the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) website for wherever rush-hour traffic was at its worst. Logjams were their meat.
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Literacy rots the brain, I'm afraid. And a rotten mind is of no use to the New Order. Sadly, there must be consequences.
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There was freedom in the pain. It meant he was still alive, still feeling, and he felt invincible. Whatever they did to him, however hard they fought, in the end, he would win.
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As I stare into the Border collie's eyes, I think that maybe I should go inside and call the girls. Claire, Cindy, and Jill would be here almost before I hung up the phone. They would hold me, hug me, say all the right things. You're special, Lindsay. Everybody loves you, Lindsay.
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When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous.
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James Patterson |
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Coffee without doughnuts is like a day without sunshine.
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James Patterson |
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Have faith and pursue the unknown end." Oliver Wendell Holmes said that. I have faith. I pursue the unknown. That's my job description."
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