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“The mind is an incredibly complex machine, Stuart. Nobody fully understands the workings of it. Everyone has their own perception of the lives they lead and the environment in which they live them. For most of us, the perceptions are complimentary, so we accept reality as a collective experience. For instance, who is to say you see the colour of this t-shirt in the same way I do. We both perceive it as green, but whether or not we see the same colour, we can’t say. It doesn’t matter though as long as we all agree. Nevertheless, if a person comes in and says my t-shirt is red and everyone else says it is green then we have to question his or her perception of my t-shirt. There has to be a reason why their perception is different to ours. Of course, in that case, we would suspect colour blindness, a condition in which the receptors in the eye send erroneous signals to the brain. For whatever reason, Stuart, we are all seeing green, but you see red. We need to find out what is causing your brain to do that.”
― Unparalleled
― Unparalleled
“She looked to Roy as though she lived in Oz, in the land of color, like she carried it with her everywhere she went. When they began dating, he found that her energy was the perfect counterpoint to the world into which he sank at regular intervals, that black and white Kansas that he inhabited.”
― Eye for Eye
― Eye for Eye
“My involvement must be kept secret, no matter what, Rollie. Even if it backfires and you face prison or worse. Got it?”
“You may count on me, Mr. President, as long as you promise to remember, you have the power to pardon criminals.”
“Yes, I do, don’t I?” RonJohn snickers. “I almost forgot about my convenient little presidential power.”
“We’ll see that the campaign gets a fresh and ample supply of cash. God bless the Supreme Court and Citizens United”
― Betrayal High
“You may count on me, Mr. President, as long as you promise to remember, you have the power to pardon criminals.”
“Yes, I do, don’t I?” RonJohn snickers. “I almost forgot about my convenient little presidential power.”
“We’ll see that the campaign gets a fresh and ample supply of cash. God bless the Supreme Court and Citizens United”
― Betrayal High
“There should be multiple yous," Grayson says, outlined by the moonlight, a blue phantasm. "So you can help solve all of our problems. So you can help solve the world's problems.”
― The Ancestor
― The Ancestor
“The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter. For some time past vessels had been met by "an enormous thing," a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale. The facts relating to this apparition (entered in various log-books) agreed in most respects as to the shape of the object or creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion, and the peculiar life with which it seemed endowed. If it was a whale, it surpassed in size all those hitherto classified in science. Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times—rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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