"There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line."

Family, Children, Luck, World

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"There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line."

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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."

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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."

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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

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"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

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"The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul."

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"The Machine stops.""What do you say?""The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs."She burst into a peal of laugher."

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"We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next."

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