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- My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy…
- Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.
- Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.
- Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents…
- Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And…
- Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.
- All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.
- When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the…
- And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most…
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