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One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
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I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We mostly made rifles and handguns, but we worked with other factories. I got to pick up the occasional goody from the QC reject pile." "A smoke grenade is a goody?" Cody asked. I frowned. What did he mean? Of course it was. Who wouldn't want a smoke grenade when offered one?
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The noble Lord, Lord Harrison, said, 'Fox hunting is cruel and I therefore want it banned.' He went on to discuss the option of controlling foxes by shooting with a rifle. He suggested that that method was preferred in the Burns report. However, nowhere in that report, so far as I can see, does any conclusion suggest that fox hunting is cruel. I defy the noble Lord to find a reference in the Burns report that says that fox hunting is cruel. It does not say that anywhere. Therefore, the only conclusion to draw is that fox hunting is not cruel.
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The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
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Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the wasteful multidepartmental structure, the divisive pedantry of overspecialization, the cronyism and sycophancy in recruitment and promotion, the boondoggling ostentation of pointless conferences, the exploitation of graduate students and part-time teachers, the subservience of faculty to overpaid administrators, the mediocrity and folly of the ruling cliques of the Modern Language Association.
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Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.
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I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.
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Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.
