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" Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards. "

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" Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead. "

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" I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer. "

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" The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites. "

" My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more. "

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