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"An action is normally the result of a thought. Since we cannot / retract an action, we tend to feel that we cannot retract the / thought which produced it. In effect, we cling desperately to our / mistakes. In order to change our views we have commonly to be / forced to act upon new thoughts, so urgent and so necessary that / without disowning our former, mistaken ideas, we can abandon them / tactfully without saying anything to anybody -- even ourselves. " / _The Practice of Thinking_ Fitzgerald
Murgatroyd came down a tree with his cheek-pouches bulged with nuts. / Calhoun inserted a finger, and Murgatroyd readily permitted him to / remove and examine the results of his scramble aloft. Calhoun grunted. / Murgatroyd did have other and more useful abilities in the service / of public health, but right here and now his delicate digestion was / extremely convenient. His stomach worked so much like a human's, that / anything Murgatroyd ate was safe for Calhoun to an incredible degree of / probability. And Murgatroyd ate nothing that disagreed with him.