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    ″‘JUNK!’ shouted Crispin. ‘That wasn’t junk! It was a store... and a pirate ship... and a castle... and Space Base and you threw it all away.‘”
    Ted Dewan
    author
    Crispin: The Pig Who Had it All
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    Crispin Tamsworth
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    junk
    special things
    throwing away
    upset
    concepts
    02
    “Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.”
    03
    “A stone had been dropped into the well, the well was my youthful soul. And for a very long time this matter of Cain, the fratricide, and the ‘mark’ formed the point of departure for all my attempts at comprehension, my doubts and my criticism.”
    04
    “For fear—that is man’s original and fundamental feeling; through fear everything is explained, original sin and original virtue.”
    05
    “THEY . . . USED . . . TO . . . READ! They’d READ and READ, AND READ and READ, and then proceed To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!”
    06
    “They halted just short of a heavily-guarded granite wall. The slave-traders shoved the clans-people against it while Scipiak spoke to the sentries.”
    07
    “What would you here, unhappy mortal, and for what cause have you left your own land to enter this, which is forbidden to such as you? Can you show reason why my power should not be laid on you in heavy punishment for your insolence and folly?”
    08
    “Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish.’”
    09
    “Creating this feeling of validation is the golden key that will unlock people’s defenses. And we cannot survive and thrive in this highly competitive world without possessing such a power. We must discover the power that we can possess by giving people the validation they crave and lowering their defenses. And the key to making this happen in a realistic and strategic manner is to fully understand a fundamental law of human nature.”
    10
    “They’re a present. They think we came on board specially to ask for them and they’ll be as upset as two coots if we don’t take them with us.”

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