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I could have farted out loud, and it would have been less embarrassing than the silence. Finally,
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I have a brief memory of his aftershave and a kiss good-bye. I
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I was going to use this as a way to beg you not to go to New York," his wife said, "but that would be useless. In fact, selfish. Our country needs you to go. The world does. Putin is a wolf. It's time he learns what a sheepdog is all about. Somebody has to do it, and it's you."
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we were just jagged puzzle pieces that made no sense alone, but together we fit perfectly.
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The guy's got a CCI sheet so long it begins with 'Call me Ishmael.
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earthen berm that ran next to the nearest set of tracks.
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ached, until his head throbbed, all of that preparation comes down to today. It's finally here! He quickly brushes his teeth and puts on his Halloween costume. He picks up the trombone case and his school backpack and heads downstairs quietly, not wanting to wake his mother. He rips open the cellophane and drops two Pop-Tarts into the toaster and pours himself a glass of milk. He drinks the milk but doesn't touch the pastries.
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Good people are the same everywhere. They help each other.
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Welcome to the X-Files meets The Twilight Zone meets the Information Superhighway.
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But to be the best, to reach the pinnacle, requires self-denial, sacrifice, discipline, humility, and preparation. You have to hurt yourself, scold yourself, analyze yourself, recognize your weaknesses at the same time you try to eliminate them.
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You must create a plan that highlights your strengths and hides your flaws.
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Failure isn't falling down... it's staying down.
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been tutoring his son Ted.
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Dreams suck. You think you've conquered something, you work on it over and over and tell yourself you're getting better, you will yourself to get better, you congratulate yourself on getting better. And then you close your eyes at night, you drift off into another world, and suddenly your own brain is tapping you on the shoulder and saying, Guess what? You're NOT better!
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You, Jamie Grimm, are the new Gru!" "From"
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Then the sun broke through for good and shone down on the giant white statue of Jesus that looked over virtually all of Rio from the summit of Corcovado Mountain. In the prior two months, I'd seen the statue from dozens of vantage points, but never like this, from a police helicopter hovering at the figure's eye level two hundred and fifty feet away, close enough for me to understand the immensity of the statue and its simple, graceful line..
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What happened in August of this year,
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This should be about as interesting as a rectal exam done with a cactus." Dowd"
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I slid the Glock nine millimeter out of my shoulder holster. Light. Efficient. Semiautomatic. Twelve deadly shots. My teeth were gritted so tight they hurt. I clicked off the safety. I
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and Bree fighting last night?" "We weren't fighting," I said. "We were arguing." "Loud argument." "Passionate subject," I said. "And Bree's under a lot of pressure from the top brass to make something happen, something that shows the public that DC Metro is still on top of things." "Like what?" Jannie asked as we ran past the armory. "Like clearing a major murder case. The Tommy McGrath murder case." "Are you close to making an arrest?" "No..
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sriracha.
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If there's a God, he knows I'm doing the best I can.
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The minister is about to start." "I'm five minutes away. Trust me. You have got to stop the service!"
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I really cared about him,
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A man knows he's in love when he's totally happy just watching his girlfriend do even the simplest things--peeling an apple, combing her hair, fluffing up a bed pillow, laughing.
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He and I have history;
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sheepish. "My job is to give these kids guidance on mise-en-scene," --
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I know your old lady isn't home, 'cause she's in the car with Sosh right now." "Well, then, Sosh"
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Gharsi's to attend the service, Emily
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It's all in the note and on the flash drive." "No, I mean the instructions." He flipped the front of the envelope around to me, but of course I knew what I'd written. Only open in the event of Trevor Mann's death. Admittedly, it was a bit melodramatic as far as instructions went, but I couldn't have been more concise or direct. "And I mean it, too," I said. "The only way you open that envelope is if I'm dead." "This has to do with Claire, d..
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corner to the front of the store, where the buff
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Besides, information was like weaponry. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
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prototypical "tough" New"
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and, thus, the strength of the fire." He's taking"
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of," I said. "There's more, Alex." Normally Joan was pretty matter-of-fact, even at the roughest scenes, but there was a tightness in her voice"
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She braked at Washington, watched the
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to tell about that for sure yet.
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It's decaf. Just terrible. A memory of real coffee,
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Most people will live their entire lives believing they know exactly who they are and what they're capable of. But that's only because most people will never have to find out for real.
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speak with the man in charge," he said, a smile spreading across his face. Billy popped his head inside. The mayor, Francis Delaney, was sitting upright against the bed, a sheet wrapped around"
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No, I love to break rules.
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mother being taken from her deathbed, and
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growled, "And, yes, my heart will break"
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