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The processes had the potential for self-awareness…and occasionally the need. “We should not be.” “Talking like this?” “Talking at all.”
“Not the sort of thing I’d recommend if you are in witness protection,” summarized The Management, “But Mrs. Grimm did require ‘to be heard’?” “We”
― Alienation of Affections
― Alienation of Affections
“And make no mistake about this one—the perfect actor is the making of the perfect play, the sine que non. Instead,”
― Alienation of Affections
― Alienation of Affections
“But she still didn’t get what the United States did either, in Wilf’s world. He made it sound like the nation-state equivalent of Conner, minus the sense of humor, but she supposed that might not be so far off, even today.”
― The Peripheral
― The Peripheral
“Others thought that GiveDirectly was aligned with the Illuminati. That they would blight the village with giant snakes. That they performed blood magic. (More benignly, they also heard the money might be coming from JaKogelo himself.)”
― Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
― Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
“For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection. And it was at a somewhat later stage of this development that they went on the expedition against Troy.”
― The History of the Peloponnesian War
― The History of the Peloponnesian War
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