“Even if you followed your bloodline back a mere thousand years, your ancestors survived war, famine, plagues, disease, and hardships you cannot imagine. Even three hundred years ago, the average life expectancy was only forty-three years
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“Even if you followed your bloodline back a mere thousand years, your ancestors survived war, famine, plagues, disease, and hardships you cannot imagine. Even three hundred years ago, the average life expectancy was only forty-three years and for every ten children born, six never survived to adulthood.” “That’s bloody grim.” “And yet, against almost insurmountable odds, you are here today because generation after generation of your forebears survived.”
― The Way We Thunk
― The Way We Thunk
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― A Christmas Carol
― A Christmas Carol
“Shit, yo! He turned that bitch into a pussycat. That’s gangster!”
― Hell on Earth: The complete series
― Hell on Earth: The complete series
“There never used to be a way to own the contents of everyone’s address book. Or the list of things you bought at the store. Or the words you’d used to talk to your friends. Or the data about where you are. Or the pictures you’d drawn and put in a gallery or on your wall. They’ve taken all that information – scraped the data. They’ve amalgamated that and made it more efficient, but they haven’t used that efficiency to benefit us all; they’ve used it to enrich themselves and keep the rest of us poor.”
― The Future
― The Future
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