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At night a thunderstorm had rather patly broken the back of the miraculous summer.
Ada, or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov
First you have to copy it. Then the original is taken away and you have to draw it from memory. Most adults are pretty good at this task, and they use the same strategy: they start by drawing the outlines of the figure, then fill in the details. Children, on the other hand, use a piecemeal approach: they randomly do one chunk of the drawing, then move on to another bit.
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
Perhaps rather than concerning ourselves with trying to form a relationship with God, we should instead become fully aware of the relationship that already exists.
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