Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than … - Helen McCloy

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When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Helen McCloy

Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

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That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.

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In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.

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Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to extol the virtues of poison insecticides, herbicides, and commercial fertilizers.

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