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Er, I can’t confirm or deny, but that’s a good guess.
Iron Sunrise (2004)
The truth hurts, but not as much as the consequences of willful ignorance.
Iron Sunrise (2004)
I just don’t like it, for extremely large values of don’t and like.
Iron Sunrise (2004)
I wasn’t exaggerating the national suspicion toward strangers. It’s a survival trait on New Dresden; they’ve been breeding for paranoia for centuries.
Iron Sunrise (2004)
And that’s when it turned intae the full-dress faeco-ventilatory intersection scene.
Iron Sunrise (2004)
The seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so.
Iron Sunrise (2004)
It was an okay vintage, if you could get past the fact that it was wine, and—stripped of the ability to get drunk on it—wine was just sour grape juice.
Iron Sunrise (2004)
Well, now is the time to peel back the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment to this mass of sticky half-truths and lies. The truth hurts, but not as much as the consequences of willful ignorance.
Iron Sunrise (2004)
People didn’t always follow their best interests. Human beings were distressingly bad at risk analysis, lousy with hidden motivations and neuroses, anything but the clean rational actors that economists or diplomats wanted so desperately to believe in, and diplomats had to go by capabilities, not intentions.
Iron Sunrise (2004)
Worlds with a single planetary government aren’t meant to be peaceful and open and into civil rights! When I see a planet with just one government, I look for the mass graves. It’s some kind of natural law or something—world governments grow out of the barrel of a gun.
Iron Sunrise (2004)
Along the way she’d acquired a powerful conviction that history was a series of accidents—God was either absent or playing a very elaborate practical joke (the Eschaton didn’t count, having explicitly denied that it was a deity)—and that the seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so.
Iron Sunrise (2004)