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...eagle, the color orange, the children, a shepherdess and a shepherd, the fortress and the arbor, all these comprise a fabric of pretentious love and meaningless hatred. On a note of tragedy the tapestry grows sordid, but Cyril is so consistently enervated even the tragic sensation becomes a cheat...
...have taken aboard the same pilot, Bob. In this sense they are alike. But the implication of concluding with their meeting would be that they were both happy or that they might become involved, which we know is impossible. Structurally and for every other reason, it would be a cheat... We have to see them coping on their own. Their love for Bob doesn't dissolve that easily. At the end Daniel says the opposite side of Alex's feelings, although it is their equivalent...
...That she is not to lie, cheat, or steal...
...dilemma of distribution. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal, Drs. Jerome Jaffe and Edward Senay report that 1-methadyl acetate, a methadone-like substance, suppresses both withdrawal symptoms and narcotic hunger up to three times as long as ordinary methadone. Therefore it decreases the temptation and the opportunity to cheat on the treatment by selling the heroin substitute for drug money...
This is one reason why papers are bought rather than written, and why examinations are administered as though to a room full of criminals, whose primary intent is to cheat. It might be fun to write a term paper if one were interested in the topic, or at least in some topic. It might even be fun to take an examination if it dealt with something-anything- one wanted to know. The trouble is that when one is completely surrounded by experts on what one should know, hardly anything seems really worth knowing...