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If she didn’t have a deadline hanging over her head like a guillotine blade, she couldn’t focus worth a damn.
“Just thirty years of studying human nature. The strongest biological urge may be to procreate, but it’s not far ahead of man’s innate compulsion to protect himself.”
“‘When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers.’ Proverbs 21:15.”
Non-declarative memory is memories associated with skills and learning. It is acquired by practice, not by recollection.”
You just do your job, Tracy, and the chips will fall where they fall. You get me?”
Tracy had always thought hope to be cruel, a tease that filled people with positive emotions, without any real basis.
We can’t always control the outcomes, but we can control what we do.
“But I know you. You’ll hem and haw for a bit, but in the end, you’ll go because you hate to lose—at anything.”
“And maybe ‘if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas,
She could get upset, but what good would that do? Bitterness was never a good recipe for happiness.