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It really is a pity. Esme was so full of curiosity and enthusiasm when she was a child. She’d make a great biologist. But it was her misfortune to be born wealthy. She had dreams. But her parents had too much money to allow that.

— Michael Swanwick Bones of the Earth (2002)

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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.

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

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Indeed, what is magic but impossible science?

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

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

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