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“Better to choose a path you’re unsure of than be forced onto a path you don’t want.” “Sounds profound. Something your father said?” Natalya shook her head. “Fortune cookie I got in a great little oriental restaurant over in Dunsany Roads.”
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“It really helps, in a negotiation, actually to know what you are doing and be stone-cold sober about the real interests of the other players.”
― 9 Lessons in Brexit
― 9 Lessons in Brexit
“The Germanic tone… it’s very calm yet quietly confident. I bet Germans were really cool, whoever they were back on Earth. They sound peaceful and meditative.”
― Voodoo Warfare
― Voodoo Warfare
“The battle for free trade policies – always difficult in the US – has, after all, gone rather convincingly backwards in both major US parties in the last 20 years. I am tempted to say it’s only much of the Tory Eurosceptic Americanophile establishment which appears not quite to have noticed that, and seems to view President’s Trump’s administration as more of a bastion of free trade than it seems to the rest of the world.”
― 9 Lessons in Brexit
― 9 Lessons in Brexit
“Not so, sir. You’re talking about an officer who doesn’t exist anymore. Therefore, Sargon’s crime does not exist.” Winslade shook his head slowly. “Think again, McGill. Just because one fact has been deleted from our minds doesn’t mean all related events have been removed as well.” “Huh? That doesn’t make any sense.” “Of course it does. If a computer forgets to pay your salary, would it also forget to bill you for the payment service? Hmm?”
― Jungle World
― Jungle World
“There were few things a ground-pounder liked less than sitting in a tin can while fleet-types tried to kill each other. We were like kids strapped into car seats, hoping our drunk parents were going to make it home this time out.”
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