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"Announcing the intended arrival of some people is kind of like issuing a hurricane warning."

"The 'Smart' radio frequency (RF) utility meter program is a known biologically harmful system that has been implemented by evil people."

"Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead."

"Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it's a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one."

"If the storm underestimates your power, nothing happens to him; but if you underestimate the power of the storm, you sink!"

"Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!"

"Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive."

"He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung."
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"After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then."

"The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. "After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly."

"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

"I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more."

"Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome."

"No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most."
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