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That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

Ben Aaronovitch

The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class.
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Character Educational Thinking
…good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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Jumping Sports Wrestling
The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn’t set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
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Cooking Fire West
A physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.
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Bamboo Close Enough Explain Expression Legendary Top
Actually I’d always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale – to the Jag mobile.
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Bats Library Phones
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It’s not your garden, it’s not a park – it’s a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer’s plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.
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Garden Park Tree
My dad once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it led. It’s the best piece of advice he has ever given me, and probably the reason I was born.
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Dad Girl Happy Life
The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop
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Clever Doctors People
In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
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Book Dream Winter
What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata.
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Expression Magic Tree Years
The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
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Sound Study Victim
And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.
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Almost Always Between Consequences Start Unless
The worst part is staying in the room after you’ve broken the news, so that you’re forced to be there when someone’s life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn’t bother them – such people are not to be trusted.
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Broken Disintegrate News People Stay Worst
On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
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Fire Side Sight
If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it’s your safest bet.
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Advice Police Talking
The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you’ve generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life – like drinking and sleeping, and if you’re lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.
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Drinking End Home Important Lucky Some Truth

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

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