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Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

— Joe Haldeman For White Hill (1995)

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Nobody else in that platoon can tell a Hamiltonian from a hamburger.

Forever Peace (1997)

Key West is lousy with writers, mostly poor writers, in one sense of that word or the other.

The Hemingway Hoax (1990)

“I’ll be frank with you.” Leonard reflected that that was one of the least trust-inspiring phrases in the language.

Infinite Dreams (1978)

Fathers and daughters don’t communicate that well even when alien languages and secret conspiracies aren’t involved.

Forever Free (1999)

Knowing the real world makes your imaginary world more believable.

None So Blind (1996)

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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