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Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls

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Fault Tolerance (Chilling Effect, #3) by Valerie Valdes

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Coincidence was just causality seen from inside the maze instead of above it.

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“Such a lexicon of tactics.”
― John Varley, Demon

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“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

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“Will have been! A truly stratospheric verb.”
― John Varley, Demon

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“If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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