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When the deterrent is the complete destruction of both the deterrent and the deterrent, the system is said to be in a state of ultimate deterrence. Compared to other types of deterrence, ultimate deterrence is distinguished by the fact that, should deterrence fail, carrying out the threat would be of no benefit to the deterrer.

"There's more in that girl than she is allowing to meet the eye. She has a way of smiling at the wrong things. Should be surprising, sooner or later."

How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented--reeducated--before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries? Do they know? Would they care? There are worse things happening here in the States and elsewhere, I know. There's war, for instance.

Embrace diversity. Unite -- Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed.

EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2027

I would stand out in Japan, always. But I could also fit in.

The world was not getting smaller with the more we saw, but larger.

One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life.

There was really nothing yet that foretold danger.

The road began to rise more and more abruptly; more and more it became just sand.

"When I first started here, there was a detailed manual that taught me how to be a store worker, and I still don't have a clue how to be a normal person outside that manual."

Estragon: (aphoristic for once). We are all born mad. Some remain so.