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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit...more

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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

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People ask without wanting to know.

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...animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.

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Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jaw...more