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“He was obsessed with the fear of making a mistake. Sometimes he was convinced it was impossible to do anything else, and that if anyone got anything right it was purely by chance.”
― The Palace of Dreams
― The Palace of Dreams
“Every democracy was a kind of anarchy in slow motion: any statute, any constitution could be changed, given time; any social contract, written or unwritten, could be dishonoured.”
― Distress
― Distress
“Presently the recruiting sergeant was not able to use the children of this regime even as cannon fodder: the Boer War and the First World War, did perhaps as much as any other factor to promote better housing there.”
― The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
― The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
“The appearance of fine-tuning in a scientific theory is like a cry of distress from nature, complaining that something needs to be better explained.”
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
“His words fell on Sara like the first touch of sun hitting a plant after a long winter.”
― The Devil and the Dark Water
― The Devil and the Dark Water
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