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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.

Ben Aaronovitch

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
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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Extra Morning Next Time
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
Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
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Coffee Espresso Excellent
If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth.
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Broken Jobs People
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
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Answers Ignored Question
In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
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Book Dream Winter
Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale – to the Jag mobile.
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Holy Nightingale Paranormal
Conflict resolution,’ said Nightingale. ‘Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ I said. ‘But don’t worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.
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Books People Phones
…good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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Jumping Sports Wrestling
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.
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Deception Self Trying
Are they really gods?” “I never worry about theological questions,” said Nightingale. “They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen’s peace – that makes them a police matter.
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Police Queen Worry
Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?
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East Potatoe
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
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
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

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