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Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I have to make some copies? The result was that once again nearly all (93 percent) agreed, even though no real reason, no new information, was added to justify their compliance. Just as the __heep-cheep_ sound of turkey chicks triggered an automatic mothering response from maternal turkeys__ven when it emanated from a stuffed polecat__o, too, did the word __ecause_ trigger an automatic compliance response

One of the many difficult things about women was that they tended to pick the most unsuitable times to tell you something they considered to be important, and then became irrationally upset when you failed to remember it.

But it is not your own Shire,_ said Gildor. __thers dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

Affectation of candour is common enough__ne meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design__o take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad__elongs to you alone.

At least twice a week, I pause in the rush of work and have a meeting with myself. (If I were part of a team, I__ call a team meeting.) I ask myself, again, of the project: __hat is this damn thing about?_ Keep refining your understanding of the theme; keep narrowing it down.

we are simply inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

New Rule #1 _ Don't date women who paint. Arty-farty doesn't just equal freaky in the sack, it also equals nasty genius revenge. I don't like genius when it's happening to me.

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

D snorted. __otta be prepared._ He looked up at Jack__ face, frowning. __hat?_ Jack shrugged. __t__ just_._ He sighed. ____ starting to see words like __ccessory_ and __ccomplice_ floating around my head._ D barely reacted. __ow about __ead on arrival_? Ya like that better?_ Jack nodded, pressing his lips together. __et more ammo. Ammo is good.

followed a step behind. My thoughts churned as my emotions seesawed

When I think of how Jesus loved people, the word __herish_ comes to mind. When we cherish someone, we combine looking and compassion__e notice and care for that person. We don__ shut him or her out.

No man should live longer than his teeth.

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.

It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it.

with a touch of sarcasm. __lass is an amazing material. Versatile,

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

That__ how you tell what a man__ really made of. It__ one thing for a man to be big and brave and kill a spider. Any man could do that. Trailin_ after a woman when she__ shopping for thongs and push-up bras is a whole other category of man. And then if you want to see how far you can go with it, you ask him to carry one of those little pink bags they give you.