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His chest heaved, and he coughed.
"You have coughed before," his mother said. "It is a sign of weakness. Control it.


Dorothy Dunnett

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DOROTHY HAMILL Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful ...
DOROTHY DENNING Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the per...
DOROTHY HEIGHT We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
DOROTHY DAY Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
DOROTHY THOMPSON Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
DOROTHY DAY I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.
DOROTHY HAMILL The death of the forest is the end of our life.
DOROTHY STANG A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
DOROTHY GILMAN Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in...
DOROTHY DIX While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally ...
DOROTHY DENNING At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.
DOROTHY HAMILL The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily...
DOROTHY HAMILL Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each othe...
DOROTHY ALLISON I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom woul...
DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY PARKER It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, st...
DOROTHY HAMILL Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
DOROTHY PARKER Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely...
DOROTHY DENNING I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any ...
DOROTHY STANG Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, ...
DOROTHY HAMILL We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in ...
DOROTHY HEIGHT I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think,...
DOROTHY PARKER He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of lo...
DOROTHY ALLISON If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - no...
DOROTHY GILMAN Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and...
DOROTHY ALLISON There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal...
DOROTHY THOMPSON I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote ...
DOROTHY HODGKIN While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to ...
DOROTHY DENNING I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to m...
DOROTHY ALLISON In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I ...
DOROTHY STRATTEN I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy ...
DOROTHY ALLISON The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and depende...
DOROTHY DIX When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-eart...
DOROTHY MCGUIRE I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season w...
DOROTHY SHULA Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
DOROTHY FULHEIM AT&T is pleased to enter this agreement that promises to establish a framework between the consumer ...
DOROTHY ATTWOOD There will always be the ability for broadband users to connect to the content of their choice. What...
DOROTHY ATTWOOD What we feel that we're offering is an additional product, an additional choice. We're not taking an...
DOROTHY ATTWOOD We look forward to bringing a new entertainment experience to our customers by delivering programmin...
DOROTHY ATTWOOD We're trying to get him in the NFL Hall now and that's going to be tough.
DOROTHY ATKINS But I'm hoping it will be easier. I have the reason to do it, though.
DOROTHY ATKINS My husband and I just thought he needs to be in this one.
DOROTHY ATKINS