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He wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.
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She got out of the car in a smooth motion that he found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.
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Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.
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I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.
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It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.
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Maybe he's growing up.Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
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'I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.''One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?'
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Sometimes it felt to him as though he’s spent most of his life traveling, and never quite got to anywhere that mattered. Then again, that might be as good a description of what life was supposed to be as anyone ever thought of. The only real destination was death, and our lives consisted of finding the most circuitous and pleasant path to get there.
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Here’s the bottom line. I promise you it’s entirely legal, and he can’t touch you for it. This is how the laws are written. They’re designed to protect the fortunes of people as rich as you, while throwing the main tax burden on people in much lower brackets.
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Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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What Alvin figured out was that when you’re Making, you don’t use people like tools. You don’t wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they’re right.
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'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'
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There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.
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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
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I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
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If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault.We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.
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'I see Alvin with a son. That what he want most.''I see him with a woman,' said Rien. 'That is what he miss the most.''I see him kneeling by a child’s grave,' said Dead Mary. 'That is what he fears the most.'
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How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.
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I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.
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