1. It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?
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2. Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.
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3. Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by nothing more than time.
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4. Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression?
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5. Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around? Scotty shook his head. The goon won.
A Visit from the Goon Squad