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If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you
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Vincent O'Sullivan (The next room)
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Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history.
Atticus O'Sullivan
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Kevin Hearne (Clan Rathskeller (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #0.5))
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Do Angels have assholes?"
Atticus O'Sullivan - Hexed
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Kevin Hearne (Hexed (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #2))
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It's so strange that the more successful you become, the more people want to give you things. And the more you can afford, the more people want to give you things for nothing. It doesn't seem right.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan (Ronnie: The Autobiography of Ronnie O'Sullivan)
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TOGETHER we stand, TOGETHER we fall, TOGETHER we win, and winners take ALL.
-Temple College Volleyball Team
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Larry O'Sullivan (How Is My Driving?: Motivational Tips for Success in Business and Life)
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I remember a time where Trolls were a fictitious monster from fairy tales, not arseholes on the internet looking for attention.
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Robert O'Sullivan
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I just want to live for the moment. Tomorrow's not important, next month is not important, what's happened in the past is not important. That is my journey.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan (Ronnie: The Autobiography of Ronnie O'Sullivan)
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She knew that she must sit quietly and patiently and, like her beloved butterflies, eventually he would come to rest.
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Patricia O'Sullivan (Hope of Israel)
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Sometimes, the small victories are the most important.
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Darren O'Sullivan (Closer Than You Think)
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He was gorgeous, sexy, compelling. But he was lethal. Deadly. Frightening.
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Rie Warren (Lucky (O'Sullivan Brothers, #1))
“
That's the famous vampire Helgarson you're riding with, isn't it? Is he fond of lattes?"
"I don't know." I looked over at Leif, who was grinning-he was hearing both sides of the conversation, of course-and said, "Malina wants to know if you like lattes, and I want to know if you're famous."
"No to both," he said, as we screamed onto the 202 on-ramp.
"Sorry, Malina," I said to the phone. "He's not famous."
"Perhaps it would be better to call infamous. It is irrelevant at this point. What is relevant is that my sisters and I are not great warriors. Were the odds even and they did not cheat with modern weapons, I would say, yes, we could walk in and win a magical battle against most opponents. But we are outnumbered more than three to one."
"How many are there?"
"Twenty-two. Some of them have firearms, but they are not great warriors either. And while they may be expecting you, Mr. O'Sullivan, they will not be expecting Mr. Helgarson to get involved. I imagine the two of you together will be quite formidable."
"She's complimenting our martial prowess, Leif," I said to him.
"I feel more manly already," He said. The short distance on the 202 was already covered and we were merging onto the southbound 101.
"Hey, Malina, tell me how much you want to see us play with our swords.
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Kevin Hearne (Hexed (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #2))
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People look for explanations for changes in their bodies, something to account for every unpleasant feeling. There is an unwillingness to accept behavioural or emotional factors, or the effects of aging, as an explanation.
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Suzanne O'Sullivan (It's All in Your Head)
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John O’Sullivan has forcefully argued that the simultaneous presence in the highest offices of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II was the cause of the Soviet collapse.
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Roger Scruton (How to Be a Conservative)
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So, all in all, the whore's drawers are back up, and with any luck they'll stay that way.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan (Running: The Autobiography)
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What then is prayer? Prayer is nothing else than talking to God, conversing with God Himself.
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Paul O'Sullivan (How to be Happy-How to be Holy)
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The best government is that which governs least.
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John L. O'Sullivan (United States magazine, or, General repository of useful instruction and rational amusement.)
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I got really bored, so I decided to pick a theme song! Something appropriate. And naturally, it should be something from Lewis’s godawful seventies collection. It wouldn’t be right any other way. There are plenty of great candidates: “Life on Mars?” by David Bowie, “Rocket Man” by Elton John, “Alone Again (Naturally)” by Gilbert O’Sullivan. But I settled on “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees.
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Andy Weir (The Martian)
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Says O'Sullivan to me, "Mr. Fay, I'll have a word wid yeh?" "Certainly," says I; "what can I do for you?" "Sell me your sea- boots, Mr. Fay," says O'Sullivan, polite as can be. "But what will you be wantin' of them?" says I. "'Twill be a great favour," says O'Sullivan. "But it's my only pair," says I; "and you have a pair of your own," says I. "Mr. Fay, I'll be needin' me own in bad weather," says O'Sullivan. "Besides," says I, "you have no money." "I'll pay for them when we pay off in Seattle," says O'Sullivan. "I'll not do it," says I; "besides, you're not tellin' me what you'll be doin' with them." "But I will tell yeh," says O'Sullivan; "I'm wantin' to throw 'em over the side." And with that I turns to walk away, but O'Sullivan says, very polite and seducin'-like, still a-stroppin' the razor, "Mr. Fay," says he, "will you kindly step this way an' have your throat cut?" And with that I knew my life was in danger, and I have come to make report to you, sir, that the man is a violent lunatic.
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Jack London (The Mutiny of the Elsinore)
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Her phone beeps and she pulls it out again. She frowns.
I give her a side-eye. “Everything all right?”
She scrolls through her email.
“Earth to Gail?”
Nothing.
“Gail Morgan O’Sullivan.”
“What? Oh!” She shoves her phone into her back pocket. “Sorry, sorry. Do you ever feel like you’re forgetting something?”
“My underwear. All the time,” I say with dead seriousness. “Sometimes I give myself a wedgie just to make sure I have them on.
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Ashley Poston (Geekerella (Once Upon a Con, #1))
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Praise can be a fuel of survival in the education system for kids like me.
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Katriona O'Sullivan (Poor)
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A relieved Colonel O’Sullivan found himself at last surrounded by his fellow countrymen; next destination: his beloved U.S. of A.
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Frederick Forsyth (The Devil's Alternative)
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The idea of Pope St. Pius X was the same when he granted a plenary indulgence at the hour of death to those who say at least after one Holy Communion the following prayer: "Eternal Father, from this day forward, I accept with a joyful and resigned heart the death it will please You to send me, with all its pains and sufferings.
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Paul O'Sullivan (How to Avoid Purgatory)
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All my patients are individuals with their own story to tell, their own set of problems and their own solution. Even where the symptoms of their distress are very similar, the roads that bring them to me are not. Each of them teaches me something important, just as each new patient I meet reminds me that there is always more to learn.
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Suzanne O'Sullivan (It's All in Your Head)
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When I look into my future, what I wish for isn't a job or a title or anything like that. I'm not Mandy, who wants everyone to admire and love her. For me, it would be enough to have one person. Someone who looks into my eyes and really sees me. To have that, that one person and this whole big ocean to explore and take care of, to keep for those who come after me. That would be enough for me.
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Joanne O'Sullivan (Between Two Skies)
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I want to know her. Not just her body, but the secrets those blue eyes hide. Her spirit, her dreams, her fears. I want to unravel the mystery of Caitlin O’Sullivan.
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Persephone Black (Her Mafia Bride (Bianchi Family Duet #1))
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Physical manifestations of unhappiness are something we all experience; it's not a personality flaw or a sign of weakness, it's a part of life.
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Suzanne O'Sullivan
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All shall be well, all shall be well, all manner of things shall be well. Julian of Norwich
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Kath O'Sullivan (A Tisket a Tasket-xled)
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Witches’ Warts! Looks like I’m going to have to break witch law again.
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Rowena May O'Sullivan
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I'm going to fuck the fear turkey.
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Father O'Brian O' Brady O'Sullivan
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A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country "would sink giggling into the sea.
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John O'Sullivan
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I’ve tried a number of religions and gurus in my time, including Buddhism, but ultimately they didn’t do as much for my peace of mind as snooker.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan
“
feet were designed to feel the world beneath them. To be connected.
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Darren O'Sullivan (Our Little Secret)
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People stop looking for answers when they find one they can relate to.
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Suzanne O'Sullivan (The Sleeping Beauties)
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Did you never hear how the life of a man is divided? Twenty years a-growing, twenty years in blossom, twenty years a-stooping, and twenty years declining.
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Maurice O'Sullivan (Twenty Years A-Growing)
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Twenty years a-growing, twenty years in bloom, twenty years a-stooping, and twenty years declining.
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Maurice O'Sullivan (Twenty Years A-Growing)
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Being poor controls how you see yourself, how you trust and speak, how you see the world and how you dream.
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Katriona O'Sullivan (Poor)
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dehumanizing the most vulnerable is a great way to excuse yourself from helping them.
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Katriona O'Sullivan (Poor)
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the Lisbon girls “Alone Again, Naturally,”
Gilbert O’Sullivan us “You’ve Got a Friend,”
James Taylor the Lisbon girls “Where Do the Children Play?,”
Cat Stevens us “Dear Prudence,”
The Beatles
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Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)
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In the age of the internet, where anyone can publish unsubstantiated opinions and articles that receive no peer review, cultural misinterpretation and misinformation on Celtic cultures continues to flourish.
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Brian O'Sullivan (Irish Imbas: Celtic Mythology Collection)
“
John O’Sullivan has forcefully argued that the simultaneous presence in the highest offices of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II was the cause of the Soviet collapse.3 And my own experience confirms this.
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Roger Scruton (How to Be a Conservative)
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Our bodies are biologically programmed to react to essential oil constituents, which interact with a variety of receptor sites, neurochemicals and enzymes, giving them a potential for therapeutic activity.” Robert Tisserand “Essential
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Jen O'Sullivan (The Essential Oil Truth: The Facts Without the Hype)
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But 'poor' for me was also feeling like I had no worth. It was poverty of mind, poverty of simulation, poverty of safety and poverty of relationships. Being poor controls how you see yourself, how you trust and speak, how you see the world and how you dream.
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Katriona O'Sullivan (Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief)
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A champion thinks: ‘That’s going in the hole, pot the blue and get on to the pink; that’s the shot.’ Embrace the moment, I told myself. This is what top sport is about, this is how you separate yourself from the pack. You grab these opportunities, and commit.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan (Running: The Autobiography)
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First Law” coined by British political pundit John O’Sullivan: “All organizations that are not explicitly right-wing will over time become left-wing.” Hebrews 2:1 warns of a similar tendency when it comes to theological matters: “Therefore, we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.” Nothing in the world comes so naturally to a Christian as putting away his oars of resistance and floating off on the cultural tides. This is especially true when you know that the firm ground of Scripture you’re standing on is increasingly becoming a deserted island.
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Megan Basham (Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda)
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Even though I was still running well, I didn’t feel good in myself. It’s funny: to the outside world I looked in great nick – healthy, trim, fit. Everybody was saying, you’re looking well, but I was in pieces. I wasn’t eating my way out of depression, but I was running my way out of my depression. But even the running didn’t always do the trick.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan (Running: The Autobiography)
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For me so far, falling in love has been nothing like fishing. It is more like making music. Trying to find a melody and matching the words, and then when they're together, getting lost in it. Carried away. You carry it in your body so that sometimes it bursts out of you and other times it's quiet and so unconscious that you're humming and you don't even notice it.
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Joanne O'Sullivan (Between Two Skies)
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Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!-All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years," Abraham Lincoln proclaimed in 1837, two years before O'Sullivan's manifesto. "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide.
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Edward Achorn (Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln)
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With all my demons, and my mum away, and dad away, and the drink and drugs, the kids, the maintenance, the keeping fit, the obsessions, the depressions, in between all that I’ve managed to win four world titles, four UKs and four Masters. I don’t know how. I’ve won 24 ranking events, 10 Premier Leagues, more than 50 tournaments altogether. It’s not bad going for such a fuck-up!
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Ronnie O'Sullivan (Running: The Autobiography)
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To try is to risk failure. But risks need to be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel change, grow, love and live. Chained by their certitudes, they are a slave; they have forfeited their freedom. Only a person who risks is free. —Leo Buscaglia
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John O'Sullivan (Changing the Game: The Parent's Guide to Raising Happy, High Performing Athletes, and Giving Youth Sports Back to our Kids)
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Drugs and oils work in opposite ways. Drugs toxify. Oils detoxify. Drugs clog and confuse receptor sites. Oils clean receptor sites. Drugs depress the immune system. Oils strengthen the immune system. Antibiotics attack bacteria indiscriminately, killing both the good and the bad. Oils attack only the harmful bacteria, allowing our body’s friendly flora to flourish.” David Stewart, Ph.D., R.A., The Chemistry of Essential Oils, 2005
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Jen O'Sullivan (The Essential Oil Truth: The Facts Without the Hype)
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When I stopped taking drugs I got really depressed. I was struggling with life. It’s a bit chicken and egg. I was depressed because I’d stopped drinking and taking drugs, but I only drank and took drugs in the first place because I was depressed. Ultimately I’d rather be clean and depressed than on drugs and depressed. At least there’s a way out, and you’re reliant on your natural feelings – if you’re down you really are down; if you’re up, you are genuinely up.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan (Running: The Autobiography)
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Those who struggle with the diagnosis may seek the opinion of doctor after doctor in the hope of finding a different explanation — and validation of their suffering. Repeatedly normal test results begin to seem a disappointment, so desperate is the patient’s search for another answer. Some find themselves pushed into a corner where they accept the role of the undiagnosed, someone who cannot be helped, because anything is better than the humiliation of a psychological disorder. Society is judgmental about psychological illness and patients know that.
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Suzanne O'Sullivan (Is It All in Your Head?: True Stories of Imaginary Illness)
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It would be easy, but misleading, to see the rise of terrorism expertise as simply a response to an increase in political violence. This simplistic empirical approach neglects the reflexive relationship between experts and their objects of knowledge. Others have suggested that we view terrorism expertise as a product of political propaganda by governments seeking to demonize their enemies and draw attention away from their own use of violence. But this “critical” approach (see, for example, Chomsky 2001; Herman and O’Sullivan 1989), which argues that terrorism experts constitute an “industry,” funded and organized by the state and other elite interests, neglects the agency and interests of the experts themselves, and the ways in which these interests may either harmonize or clash with those of the state, the media, and the “terrorists” themselves.
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Lisa Stampnitzky (Disciplining Terror)
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Mr. Melville is evidently trying to ascertain how far the public will consent to be imposed upon. He is gauging, at once, our gullibilty and our patience. Having written one or two passable extravagancies, he has considered himself privileged to produce as many more as he pleases, increasingly exaggerated and increasingly dull…. In bombast, in caricature, in rhetorical artifice — generally as clumsy as it is ineffectual — and in low attempts at humor, each one of his volumes has been an advance among its predecessors…. Mr. Melville never writes naturally. His sentiment is forced, his wit is forced, and his enthusiasm is forced. And in his attempts to display to the utmost extent his powers of “fine writing,” he has succeeded, we think, beyond his most sanguine expectations… We have no intention of quoting any passages just now from Moby-Dick. The London journals, we understand, “have bestowed upon the work many flattering notices,” and we should be loth to combat such high authority. But if there are any of our readers who wish to find examples of bad rhetoric, involved syntax, stilted sentiment and incoherent English, we will take the liberty of recommending to them this precious volume of Mr. Melville’s.
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John L. O'Sullivan
“
Western medicine’s love of drawing people into diagnostic categories and applying disease names to small differences and minor bodily changes is not specific to functional disorders – it is a general trend. Pre-diabetes, polycystic ovaries, some cancers and many more conditions have all been subject to the problem of over-inclusive diagnosis. My biggest concern in this regard is the degree to which many people are wholly unaware of the subjective nature of the medical classification of disease. If a person is told they have this or that disorder, they assume it must be right. The Latin names we give to things and the shiny scanning machines make it look as if there is more authority than actually exists. To a certain extent, Sienna pursued each diagnosis she was given, but other people have diagnoses thrust upon them, having no idea that there might be anything controversial about it – and having no idea that they have a choice. Western medicine’s hold on people, and its sense of being systematic and accurate, makes it a powerful force in the transmission of cultural concepts of what constitutes wellness or ill health. But Western medicine is just as enslaved to fads and trends as any other tradition of medicine.
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Suzanne O'Sullivan (The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness)
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But it was my practice never to let a good insult go unslung. “Now I know you. I found a brain tumor on your prostate exam.
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Claire O'Sullivan (Romance Under Wraps)
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McCloud withdrew a pencil
from his pocket and pointed at the remainder of Thompson’s
head. “See this? It’s stippling. These marks on the remainder
of the decedent’s skull prove my theory. Gunpowder tattoos
indicate distance, at the minimum, six inches. Not impossible for a suicide, but unlikely. My guess, your boy here is a
homicide, pure and simple.
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Claire O'Sullivan (Romance Under Wraps)
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He held his hand out. “Let me have your smartphone.”
I snort-laughed. “Sure. As in, I don’t think so.”
“Relax. All I want to do is put my number in there.”
I grabbed the phone from my camo purse and handed it to him. “I’m watching you.”
“Watch all you want.” He glanced at me with a wry smile.
“A camo purse? I’m in love.” He bobbed his head.
My face burned in a furious blush. Despite the very small crush I seemed to be developing, I watched his every move.
Never trust a cop.
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Claire O'Sullivan (Romance Under Wraps)
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Edmund O’Sullivan is a transformative learning expert at the Transformative Learning Centre in Toronto, Canada. In academic terms he defines a transformational moment in this way: “Transformation involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift in consciousness that dramatically and irreversibly alters our way of being in the world.
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Vishen Lakhiani (The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work)
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Life was quite often like business. Even when your journey veered off-track, you simply recalculated and adjusted your trajectory
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Debra Webb (The Nature of Secrets (Finley O’Sullivan #2))
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There was nothing more satisfying than taking all the jumbled pieces and putting them together one by one to recreate the picture—the story—of the crime in question.
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Debra Webb (The Nature of Secrets (Finley O’Sullivan #2))
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Competence: refining the technical, tactical, and sport-specific performance elements
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John O'Sullivan (Every Moment Matters: How the World's Best Coaches Inspire Their Athletes and Build Championship Teams)
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Confidence: developing an athlete’s self-belief and self-worth, as well as their resilience and mental toughness
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John O'Sullivan (Every Moment Matters: How the World's Best Coaches Inspire Their Athletes and Build Championship Teams)
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Connection: building social bonds between teammates, coaches, and support staff
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John O'Sullivan (Every Moment Matters: How the World's Best Coaches Inspire Their Athletes and Build Championship Teams)
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Character: developing the moral character of athletes—items such as empathy, respect, and integrity—so that athletes are also good role models
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John O'Sullivan (Every Moment Matters: How the World's Best Coaches Inspire Their Athletes and Build Championship Teams)
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Don’t React. Respond!
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John O'Sullivan (Every Moment Matters: How the World's Best Coaches Inspire Their Athletes and Build Championship Teams)
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The most powerful leadership tool we all have is our own example. —John Wooden
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John O'Sullivan (Every Moment Matters: How the World's Best Coaches Inspire Their Athletes and Build Championship Teams)
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I hit a low place,” she began. “Perhaps it was the idea that fifty was looming. I don’t know, but I felt off. Out of sync with myself.
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Debra Webb (The Nature of Secrets (Finley O’Sullivan #2))
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There were some fractures that never healed, no matter how much time passed and no matter how you moved on. They were just there . . . marring the person you wanted to rise above. But those fractures, those dim little scars . . . wouldn’t go away quietly.
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Debra Webb (All the Little Truths (Finley O’Sullivan #3))
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Rebecca O’Sullivan has loved me since she was fourteen years old, and now I am just realizing that in my own way, I have loved her since then too.
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G.N. Wright (Disarray (The Hallowed Crows MC #4))
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In the Celtic Druidic tradition, whole clans and families are reputed to have descended from the union of humans and seals. They include: Clan MacCodrum ("of the Seals") from North Uist in the Outer Hebrides; the Coneelys, Cregans and Hennessys from Ireland; the O'Sullivans of County Kerry; and the MacNamaras, whose name means "Sons of the Sea-Hound (i.e. seal)".
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Yowann Byghan (Sacred and Mythological Animals: A Worldwide Taxonomy (McFarland Myth and Legend Encyclopedias))
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She had an instinct, my mum, a sense of maternal love. It was in there. Problem was, you had to go under a car to feel it.
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Katriona O'Sullivan (Poor)
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don’t focus on what you can lose, but what you can gain.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan (Unbreakable)
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It was in the alone times when my inner voice was loudest.
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Katriona O'Sullivan (Poor)
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Teachers have a huge impact on the children they teach: it can be negative, or it can be life-changing.
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Katriona O'Sullivan (Poor)
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up at that, and he was sure he
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Sophia Quinn (O'Sullivan Sisters: The Complete Series (The O'Sullivan Sisters, #1-7))
Sophia Quinn (O'Sullivan Sisters: The Complete Series (The O'Sullivan Sisters, #1-7))
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She and Max have never left Australia before. Sue hasn’t seen it all. She hasn’t seen a damned thing! A whole planet of castles and cathedrals, paintings and sculptures, mountains and oceans waits to be seen and admired by Sue and Max O’Sullivan. They’re feeling especially positive right now about their future travel prospects because if they can so successfully drive a camper van around Tasmania, why not drive one around France? Why not Italy? They can drive on the wrong side of the road! They’re pretty sure they can!
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Liane Moriarty (Here One Moment)
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Rebecca O’Sullivan is a fucking goddess, and if I have to get on my knees like Aiden and beg for her affections everyday, then I will buy a pair of fucking knee pads and get down on the floor.
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G.N. Wright (Disloyal (The Hallowed Crows MC, #3))
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O’Sullivan and Field (2018) provide a case study of systemically team coaching an Australian pharmaceutical company in this process.
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Peter Hawkins (Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership)
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Angie Billows. Jill Venable. Greta Smith. Lily Spector. Bobbie Sax. Jessica Moore. Mary Jane Cushing. Patricia Patterson. Ginny Towers. The nine women I’d murdered. Derek Tice. Zed Billings. Dale Collier. Rog Thurl. Cameron Edding.
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Brian O'Sullivan (The Photo Album (Bobby McGowan #1))
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As eager American settlers poured into the Mexican territory of Texas, editor John L. O’Sullivan wrote that “it is our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.” The populace was soon persuaded that it was America’s “manifest destiny” not only to inhabit Texas, but to fill up the entire continent, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic shore.
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Rodman Philbrick (Stay Alive: The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds, The Donner Party Expedition, 1846 (My Name Is America))
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If you take your eye off the horizon to view the next mile that is where you might end up
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Mike O'Sullivan
“
The philosophy is that you push the power of decision making out to the periphery and away from the center. You give people the room to adapt, based on their experience and expertise. All you ask is that they talk to one another and take responsibility. That is what works. The strategy is unexpectedly democratic, and it has become standard nowadays, O’Sullivan told me, even in building inspections. The inspectors do not recompute the wind-force calculations or decide whether the joints in a given building should be bolted or welded, he said. Determining whether a structure like Russia Wharf or my hospital’s new wing is built to code and fit for occupancy involves more knowledge and complexity than any one inspector could possibly have.
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Atul Gawande (The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right)
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Pinned to the left-hand wall opposite the construction schedule was another butcher-block-size sheet almost identical in form, except this one, O’Sullivan said, was called a “submittal schedule.” It was also a checklist, but it didn’t specify construction tasks; it specified communication tasks. For the way the project managers dealt with the unexpected and the uncertain was by making sure the experts spoke to one another—on X date regarding Y process. The experts could make their individual judgments, but they had to do so as part of a team that took one another’s concerns into account, discussed unplanned developments, and agreed on the way forward. While no one could anticipate all the problems, they could foresee where and when they might occur. The checklist therefore detailed who had to talk to whom, by which date, and about what aspect of construction—who had to share (or “submit”) particular kinds of information before the next steps could proceed.
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Atul Gawande (The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right)
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I’m proud that I’m not someone who says, ‘I can’t do that.' I’m someone who says, ‘I won’t know until I try.
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Moire O'Sullivan (Mud, Sweat and Tears - an Irish Woman's Journey of Self-Discovery)
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I’m proud that I’m not someone who says ‘I can’t do that’. I’m someone who says ‘I won’t know until I try’.
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Moire O'Sullivan (Mud, Sweat and Tears - an Irish Woman's Journey of Self-Discovery)
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I hope that more women learn to believe in themselves, because when we dig deep it’s amazing what lies inside.
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Moire O'Sullivan (Mud, Sweat and Tears - an Irish Woman's Journey of Self-Discovery)
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5th May 2016 The first final day 10.39 p.m. –March train station, England Eight minutes. Chris looked up at the analogue dials of the train station clock, its ticking unperturbed by what was about to happen. It read ten thirty-nine. He stood and watched the seconds pass by slowly. Eight minutes, that was all he had to wait. Looking around the station he noted how dilapidated it was. The benches that were once sky blue were now covered with an assortment of profanities –as were the walls behind them. Pictures of male genitals and insults to people’s mothers were lit by a dull orange light in the roof of the old station and the flickering of a half-empty vending machine. The old Chris might have had an opinion about it. Not now. Not anymore. Instead, reading the walls
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Darren O'Sullivan (Our Little Secret)
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appearing through the vegetation and driving into his uncle with its tusks, or through him. The risk sent his heart pounding. There was speed, everything was accelerated. The unpredictable movement of Daygo seemed more pronounced, more full of life. He ran, aware of its wonder as life happened and bubbled and changed all around him. He gloried in the privilege to be there, to witness it, to be aware of it all unfolding before his eyes, within his body, pounding in his ears, whishing through his nose and mouth; he could smell the forest sharply, the scene changing, moving, assaulting his nostrils. He imagined himself high up above, looking down at all the frantic activity happening below in the forest and trees, up and down the mountain. He wondered if such
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John F. O' Sullivan (Daygo's Fury: The Daygo Stream)
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She marched to the door and said, "if I ever marry, Patrick O'Sullivan, I shall make sure that my mate for life is a decent woman, or even, maybe, a book.
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Joanna Trollope (The Rector's Wife)
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We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?
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John L. O'Sullivan
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Management must show compassion. Management without compassion is like a marriage without love.' - Malik of America Square.
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Mike O'Sullivan
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O’Sullivan immediately proposed that the army form into companies of fifty men each, commanded by a captain supported by one lieutenant and four sergeants. But, sadly, this ‘cou’d not be followed, they must go by tribes ; such a chife of a tribe had sixty men, another thirty, another twenty, more or lesse ; they wou’d not mix nor seperat, & wou’d have double officers, [that] is two Captns, & two Lts, to each Company, strong or weak. That’, O’Sullivan pithily observed, ‘was uselesse.’ This irregular, clan-focused arrangement was both a strength and a weakness of this embryonic army.
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Jacqueline Riding (Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion)
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At length, one evening towards the end of March, the mental clearness of Orange somewhat revived, and he felt himself compelled to get up and put on his clothes. The nurse, thinking that the patient was resting quietly, and fearing the shine of the lamp might distress him, had turned it low and gone away for a little: so it was without interruption, although reeling from giddiness, and scorched with fever, that Rupert groped about till he found some garments, and his evening suit. Clad in these, and throwing a cloak over his shoulders, he went downstairs. Those whom he met, that recognized him, looked at him wonderingly and with a vague dread; but he appeared to have his understanding as well as they, and so he passed through the hall without being stopped; and going into the bar, he called for brandy. The bar-tender, to whom he was known, exclaimed in astonishment; but he got no reply from Orange, who, pouring himself out a large quantity of the fiery liquor found it colder than the coldest iced water in his burning frame. When he had taken the brandy, he went into the street. It was a bleak seasonable night, and a bitter frost-rain was falling: but Orange went through it, as if the bitter weather was a not unwelcome coolness, although he shuddered in an ague-fit. As he stood on the corner of Twenty-third Street, his cloak thrown open, the sleet sowing down on his shirt, and the slush which covered his ankles soaking through his thin shoes, a member of his club came by and spoke to him.
"Why, good God! Orange, you don't mean to say you're out on a night like this! You must be much better--eh?" he broke off, for Orange had given him a grey look, with eyes in which there was no speculation; and the man hurried away scared and rather aghast. "These poet chaps are always queer fishes," he muttered uneasily, as he turned into the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Of the events of terror and horror which happened on that awful night, when a human soul was paying the price of an astonishing violation of the order of the universe, no man shall ever tell. Blurred, hideous, and enormous visions of dives, of hells where the worst scum of the town consorted, of a man who spat on him, of a woman who struck him across the face with her umbrella, calling him the foulest of names--visions such as these, and more hateful than these, presented themselves to Orange, when he found himself, at three o'clock in the morning, standing under a lamp-post in that strange district of New York called "The Village."
("The Bargain Of Rupert Orange")
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Vincent O'Sullivan (The Supernatural Omnibus- Being A Collection of Stories)
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Yesterday afternoon I took from amongst my books a novel of Rupert Orange, and as I turned over the leaves, I fell to pondering how difficult it is to obtain any of his works to-day, while but a few years ago all the world was reading them; and to lose myself in amaze at our former rapturous and enthusiastic admiration of his literary art, his wit, his pathos. For in truth his art is a very tawdry art to my present liking; his wit is rather stale, his pathos a little vulgar. And the charm has likewise gone out of his poetry: even his 'Chaunt of the Storm-Witch,' which we were used to think so melodious and sonorous, now fails to please. To explain the precise effect which his poetry has upon me now, I am forced to resort to a somewhat unhappy figure; I am forced to say that his poetry has an effect on me like sifted ashes! I cannot in the least explain this figure; and if it fails to convey any idea to the reader, I am afraid the failure must be set down to my clumsy writing. And yet what praise we all bestowed on these works of Rupert Orange! How eagerly we watched for them to appear; how we prized them; with what zeal we studied the newspapers for details of his interesting and successful life!
("The Bargain of Rupert Orange")
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Vincent O'Sullivan (The Supernatural Omnibus- Being A Collection of Stories)
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Amid this social intercourse, however, he avoided sedulously a meeting with Mrs. Annice; he had decided not to see her for a while. Indeed, it was not till an evening late in February, after dinner, that he took a cab to her house near Washington Square. He found her at home, and had not waited a minute before she came into the room. She was a tall woman, and wonderfully handsome by gaslight; but she had that tiresome habit, which many women have, of talking intensely--in italics, as it were: a habit found generally in women ill brought up-women without control of their feelings, or command of the expression of them.
("The Bargain of Rupert Orange")
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Vincent O'Sullivan (The Supernatural Omnibus- Being A Collection of Stories)
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We should beware of speaking ill or doing harm to others, for their Angels will defend them and avenge them. Our
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Paul O'Sullivan (All about the Angels)
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Land was more optimistic, "As long as there are some who hang on to their generations and traditions like the Butterfields do here there is an example if someone wants to stand up and show what we have lost.
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Richard Crandall (Generations: Butterfield and O'Sullivan)