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"Fact is, Sarge, she... er, caught me snickering her nolly last month. Hell's bells, Sarge, she's got a punch on her like a mule! When I came round, we got to talking, and she said a keen young lad like me could be useful as, like, an ear on the street."

 

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

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The water was so clear. He held it to the light. A single bit of sediment coiling in the jar on some slow hydraulic axis.

 

- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy.

 

Jesus. That was my answer too. Ok next nearest book-

 

"Only 'dare,' great Smyorin?"

 

"Only 'dare,' little Kephias. It's not due to our constitutions alone that we dragons live so long."

 

 

*Groans* what the hell is this? My wife's book, Cats Have No Lord by Will Shetterly.

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Only people in Newfoundland have sex. Everyone else just talks about it. Incessantly.

 

 

How to be a Canadian by Will and Ian Ferguson.

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But having said that, they were very funny with each other. They used to have a lot of laughs. They had these long bus journeys and they'd get stoned and talk to each other and they interacted very well.

 

Fool The World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies.

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With each property Steve Wynn develops on the Las Vegas Strip, his vision for the ultimate megaresort-casino becomes more sophisticated. Wynn Las Vegas opened in May 2005, and did so without whumping volcanoes, jets of water undulating to Frank Sinatra tunes, or pirate versus siren skirmishes. The handsome swoosh of the sunlit-copper glass facade stands in stark contrast to the immediate, raucous fun of traditional Las Vegas hotel-casinos.

 

-- The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas, 2006

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"When you watch them struggle with a question, knowing that you have the information that could easily resolve their dilemma; when you see them come very near the truth and then for lack of your information retreat from their correct conclusions and return to error - you would not be human if it didn't cause you great anguish.

 

You must remind yourself, always: It is their law, their choice. They are the ones who built the wall between themselves and the truth, and they would only punish us if we let them know how easily and thoroughly that wall has been breached."

 

Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card

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By the same mathmatical model, eight sociopathic symptoms and their absence were found to be sugnificantly heritable. They are, in decending order of theoretical heritability: "fails to conform to social norms," "aggressive," "reckless," "impulsive," "fails to honor financial obligations," "incosistant work," "never monoganous," and "lacks remorse." Still other studies have found that sociopaths have low "agreeableness," low "conscientiouness," and low "harm avoidance," all of which personality dimensions have a genetic conponent.

 

 

 

The Sociopath next Door

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