And now once again I asked myself the question: do I love her? And once more I could not answer, that is to say, again, for the hundreth time, I answered that I hated her. The Gambler
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. A Study in Scarlet
The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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