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Anyone who bar-codes their employees isn’t likely to be the forgiving type, and the reflex of long-held obedience through hierarchy is usually enough to overcome fear of a combat death. That’s how you fight wars, after all—with soldiers who are more afraid of stepping out of line than they are of dying on the battlefield.

— Richard Morgan Altered Carbon (2002)

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We are, after all, evolved to relate to the physical world.

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I paused and set down my glass, searching for the fine edge of deceit that always lies right up against the truth.

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The essence of control is to remain hidden from view, is it not?

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Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing.
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