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Everyone dies—the rearrangement of when is a matter of only statistical interest.

— Michael Swanwick Stations of the Tide (1991)

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What the common man calls Evil, he once told me, is nothing more than the fear of one’s own potential.

Jack Faust (1997)

Indeed, what is magic but impossible science?

Stations of the Tide (1991)

Money can always be traced. It leaves a trail of slime behind it wherever it goes.

Stations of the Tide (1991)

This is the price you must pay for knowledge: You must understand and acknowledge its consequences.

Jack Faust (1997)

These hands were almost crippled digging coal so that rich men in Boston might grow even richer.

In the Drift (1985)

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