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The future, it seemed, was turning out to be one damn thing after another.
Time (1999)
There’s nothing an entrepreneur likes more than the sound of the word free.
Time (1999)
If you have kids you’re a slave to your genes. Just a conduit from past to future, from the primeval ocean to galactic empire.
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From the air Illinois was a vast emptiness studded by lost-looking little towns.
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It is of course a truism that all logically possible universes must exist.
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And I have learned that leadership is, more often than not, the art of choosing the least worst among evils.
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“Have you studied history, Anna?”
“Yes. The information is limited, the interpretation is partial. But it is interesting.”
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In engineering, experience gained is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
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Everyone was used to official manipulation of the truth—to zhilu weima, to point at a deer and call it a horse, as the expression went.
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It seems to me that the human race simply isn’t advanced enough yet to be able to trust any subset of itself with the power to run the lives of the rest.
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Almost all of history was a carefully constructed mythology for use as propaganda or nation building.
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It was a war that was inevitable because it was a war that everybody wanted.
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Since 1970 or thereabouts going to space has not been part of our national agenda.
NASA has kept complete control over space. But since 1970 NASA has produced paper, not spaceships.
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Emma trying to figure that for herself. But, like most probability problems, the answer was counterintuitive.
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I did not enter politics to be involved in this kind of operation. But who did? And I have learned that leadership is, more often than not, the art of choosing the least worst among evils.
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The immediate future, regardless of Carter, was as dangerous as it had ever been. And the temptation many people seemed to feel to sacrifice their freedom to stern utopians who promised to order that future for them was growing stronger.
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Malenfant had moved his corporation here, out of New York, five years ago. A good place for business, he said. God bless Nevada. Distract the marks with gambling toys and virtual titties while you pick their pockets.
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This remains a place of grinding poverty. Misguided aid efforts had flooded the area with cheap Western clothes, and local crooks had use them to undercut and wipe out the textile factories that had once kept everyone employed.
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Anyhow, she knew when she looked into her heart she’d never really wanted kids anyhow. She’d seen how kids dropped from the sky and exploded people’s lives like squalling neutron bombs. She was honest enough to admit she was too selfish for that; her life, her only life, was her own.
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“The only advantage of e-therapists,” Maura murmured, “is that their horseshit is cheaper than humans’.”
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