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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it
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You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.
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Every book presents its own specific challenges, or should, and you're right that this one has a preoccupation with uncertainty. In this, Valiant Gentlemen is a rupture from previous work as its obsession is with the psychology of characters who are in states of unknowing living in unpredictable times where the stakes are unusually high.
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That was a great game of golf, fellers.
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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.
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The world is such a marvel-it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.
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Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.
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When you worry about something, you are using your immense power of imagination negatively. You are imagining the worst, and as you imagine the worst, you are bringing it to you. When you are excited about something, you are using your power of imagination positively. You are imagining the best, and as you imagine the best, you are bringing it to you.