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“It was not my fault. If only the group had followed my original itinerary without changing it hither, thither, and yon, this debacle would never have happened.”
“Dans la famille, dès le début février, la perspective du « pèlerinage Pelletier » occupait tous les esprits, ceux des parents qui souhaitaient maintenir la tradition, comme ceux des enfants qui, chaque année, tentaient d’y échapper.”
“For hours the two men sat on the back porch talking.
It was as peaceful an afternoon as the younger man, a lawyer just down from New York, had ever seen. On the horizon, the sun was a sinking red ball. Below, delicate snowy egrets poked through the reeds of the Intracoastal waterway.”
“This book arose from the author's coverage in the Wall Street Journal of the fight to control RJR Nabisco in October and November 1988. Our goal in pursuing the story behind those public events has been to meet the standard of accuracy and general excellence that the journal sets for journalists everywhere.”
“Before the discovery of Australia, people in the Old World were convinced that all swans were white, an unassailable belief as it seemed completely confirmed by empirical evidence. The sighting of the first black swan might have been an interesting surprise for a few ornithologists (and others extremely concerned with the coloring of birds), but that is not where the significance of the story lies. It illustrates a severe limitation to our learning from observations or experience and the fragility of our knowledge.”
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