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Say,' Uzi pressed on, 'is it true that when you people go out on a job they promise you seventy nymphomaniac virgins in Kingdom Come? All for you, Solico?' 'Sure, they promise,' Nassar said, 'and look what it got me. Lukewarm vodka.' 'So you're just a sucker in the end, eh, ya Nasser,' Uzi gloated. 'Sure thing,' Nasser nodded. 'And you, what did they promise you?

For Himme, the cumulative effect of the cumulative listening to the cumulative song was cumulatively distressing.

There is nothing that will make an Englishman shit so quick as the sight of General Washington.

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.

1. An 'unit' is that by virtue of which each of the things that exist is called one. 2. A 'number' is a multiple composed of units.

APC pills from a corpsman.* This medication was the standard remedy for everything except bayonet, gunshot, or shrapnel wounds.

The Holy Spirit's instruments have no consciousness of His purpose; if they imagine they have, it is a pretty sure token that they are NOT His instruments. Nathaniel Hawthorne

To live no tight, neat role is truly sacrificial, it is also truly creative because it leaves us open and free (dare we say) like God himself.

proper work for the Christian is witness, not apology, and Psalm 124 is an excellent model.

It is not just pastors who get surprised, but it is easy for pastors to harbor the presumption that when we are wronged or ignored or dismissed, God himself is being blasphemed.

Simplicity is in such scarce supply, I thought, yet so many people would benefit by it, be transformed by it.

Each time I read, and witness the scintillating and austere construction of a system, I cannot help but to feel a certain sadness - the edifice itself is somehow depressing.

Prospect Park, Sunday afternoon. To feel claustrophobia even in "nature.

Pessimism's propositions have all the gravitas of a bad joke.

I think I remember him saying that the problem with a tire fire is that it can smolder for years, burning quietly but uncontrollably.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

My mother was accursed the night she bore me,and I am faint with envy of all the dead.

It was a night to dream about: windless, warm and scented, with a streak of gold and amethyst still lingering in the sky.

A faint terror lest she begin to curtsy took hold of Rupert.

No." She waited, holding back with an innate sense of drama while they floundered hopelessly among lesser materials and commonplace outfits.

Daisy offered a mosquito which bit you and gave you yellow fever. 'You turn as yellow as a lemon and then you die,' she said.

Arnold Schönberg, the inventor of atonal music, gave concerts which might not be comprehensible but were obviously important.

I think I ought to cut my hair off," said Maia, one morning, as she tore yet another tooth out of Finn's comb. "No. That's a bad idea." Maia looked up, surprised. "But you wanted Clovis to cut his hair." "That was different.

Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.