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Even the people were bred without imaginations. The imaginative ones were fixed—or gotten rid of. Too dangerous to have a thinker unless he thought the government’s way.

— Jack L. Chalker Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977)

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To tell the truth, the only thing more exhausting than doing something is doing nothing at all.

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I remembered him as one hell of a womanizer—particularly for a mathematician.

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And, of course, men have just as many problems and hang-ups as women. The grass isn’t greener, just different.

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