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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    1:11 pm
    @@@@@ “A very praiseworthy practice,” said
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    “A very praiseworthy practice,” said Edmund, “but not quite universal
    I am one of the exceptions, and being one, must do something
    for myself
    “‘But why are you to be a clergyman? I thought that was always
    the lot of the youngest, where there were many to chuse before
    him
    “Do you think the church itself never chosen, then?”
    “Never is a black wordBut yes, in the never of conversation, which
    means not very often, I do think itFor what is to be done in the
    church? Men love to distinguish themselves, and in either of the
    other lines distinction may be gained, but not in the churchA
    clergyman is nothing
    “The nothing of conversation has its gradations, I hope, as well as
    the neverA clergyman cannot be high in state or fashionHe must
    not head mobs, or set the ton in dressBut I cannot call that situation
    nothing which has the charge of all that is of the first importance
    to mankind, individually or collectively considered, temporally
    and eternally, which has the guardianship of religion and morals,
    and consequently of the manners which result from their influence
    No one here can call the office nothingIf the man who holds
    it is so, it is by the neglect of his duty, by foregoing its just importance,
    and stepping out of his place to appear what he ought not to
    appear
    “You assign greater consequence to the clergyman than one has been
    used to hear given, or than I can quite comprehendOne does not see
    much of this influence and importance in society, and how can it be
    acquired where they are so seldom seen themselves? How can two
    sermons a week, even supposing them worth hearing, supposing the
    preacher to have the sense to prefer Blair’s to his own, do all that you
    speak of? govern the conduct and fashion the manners of a large congregation
    for the rest of the week? One scarcely sees a clergyman out
    of his pulpit
    “You are speaking of London, I am speaking of the nation at large
    “The metropolis, I imagine, is a pretty fair sample of the rest
    81
    Jane Austen
    “Not, I should hope, of the proportion of virtue to vice throughout
    the kingdomWe do not look in great cities for our best morality
    It is not there that respectable people of any denomination can
    do most good; and it certainly is not there that the influence of the
    clergy can be most feltA fine preacher is followed and admired;
    but it is not in fine preaching only that a good clergyman will be
    useful in his parish and his neighbourhood, where the parish and
    neighbourhood are of a size capable of knowing his private character,
    and observing his general conduct, which in London can rarely
    be the caseThe clergy are lost there in the crowds of their parishioners
    They are known to the largest part only as preachersAnd with
    regard to their influencing public manners, Miss Crawford must
    not misunderstand me, or suppose I mean to call them the arbiters
    of good-breeding, the regulators of refinement and courtesy, the
    masters of the ceremonies of lifeThe manners I speak of might
    rather be called conduct, perhaps, the result of good principles; the
    effect, in short, of those doctrines which it is their duty to teach and
    recommend; and it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the
    clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the
    na
    6:54 am
    @@@@@Croft spat disgustedly"Them men are enough
    @@@@@Croft spat disgustedly"Them men are enough to frost your nuts There was a restless titterWilson, unconscious now, lay in the center of the hollow, very stillDespite themselves, they all kept looking at him
    Hearn had joined Croft, and after talking for a moment or two, they called Brown and Stanley and Martinez over to themIt was about four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was still hotCroft, afraid of becoming sunburned, pulled the rifles out of his shirt sleeves, flapped it a few times, and put it onHe grimaced at the bloodstains on it, and then began to talk"The Lootenant thinks that all the noncoms ought to talk this over now He mentioned this flatly as if to convey that the idea had not come from him"We're gonna send some men back with Wilson, an' I think we ought to figure out who we don't want
    "How many you sending with him, Lootenant?" Brown asked
    Hearn hadn't thought about that until nowHow many would it be? He shrugged, trying to remember the number of men specified in the manual"Oh, I think six will about do it," he said
    Croft shook his head, made an abrupt decision"We ain't gonna be able to spare six, Lootenant, we'll have to make it four"It's gonna be a sonofabitch with four men
    "Yeah, four men, not so good," Martinez said sarcasticallyHe knew he would not be chosen as one of the litter-bearers, and this once it made him bitterHis nerves were still taut from the ambushHe knew Brown would maneuver himself into going back with Wilson, while he would have to go ahead with the platoon"You're right, Sergeant, we can spare only four litter-bearers His voice was easy, forceful, as if he had been commanding them for a long tim
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    1:11 pm
    @@@@@It spurred him on, yet left him
    @@@@@It spurred him on, yet left him exhaustedEach step he took closer to the summit left him more afraidHe might have quit before they reached it
    But he never had the opportunityHe reeled over a rock, saw a light-tan nest shaped something like a football, and in his fatigue he smashed into itInstantly, he realized what the nest was, but too lateAn uproar burst in it and a huge hornet, about the size of a half dollar, fluttered out, and then another and another after itHe watched dumbly as dozens of them flickered about his headThey were large and beautiful with great yellow bodies and iridescent wings; afterward he exhumed the memory as something completely apart from what followed
    The hornets were furious, and in a few seconds they raced down the line of men like a burning fuseCroft felt one of them flutter at his ear, and he struck at it with a grunt, but it had stung himThe pain was maddening; it numbed his ear like frostbite, and traveled through his body with an acute shockAnother stung him and another; he bellowed with pain and struck at them frenziedly
    For the platoon this was the final unbearable distressPerhaps five seconds they stood rooted, flailing dumbly at the hornets that attacked themEach sting lashed through a man's body, loosing new frantic energies of desperationThe men were in deliriumWyman began to bawl like a child, holding feebly to a rock, and swatting at the air in a tantrum
    "I can't stand it, I can't stand it!" he roared
    Two hornets bit him almost at once, and he hurled away his rifle, and screamed in terrorThe shriek detonated the menWyman began to run down the rocks, and one by one they followed him
    Croft shouted at them to stop, but they paid no attentionHe gave a last oath, swung impotently at a few of the hornets and then started down after themIn a last fragment of his ambition, he thought of regrouping them at the bott
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    the
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    The protesting chorus grew from all sections of the desperate crowd as the soldiers held firm,
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    “What’s he shouting about?” asked Jason, turning to Benjamin
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    “What?”
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    speak
    A staccato volley of automatic gunfire burst from the shadows of the tunnel’s parking area
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
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    Now came the hard part, the terrible part
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    xi
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    I have watched this game played by more than 1,000 peopleThe people who get out of the "Rat Race" in the game the quickest are the people who understand numbers and have creative financial mindsThey recognize different financial options People who take the longest are people who are not familiar with numbers and often do not understand the power of investingRich people are often creative and take calculated risks
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    CHAPTER SEVEN
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    170
    Mansfield Park
    CHAPTER XXI
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    171
    Jane Austen
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    32
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    with
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