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Management’ll never go for it. First, it’s live-animal research, which is controversial. Management hates controversy. Second, it’s something innovative, which means Management will hate it on principle.

— Connie Willis Bellwether (1996)

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Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

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Ah, Hollywood, where everybody wants to be in the movies and nobody’s ever bothered to watch one.

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Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

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A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key.

Fire Watch (1985)

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