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“Take it easy, Fatty, and we'll be all right,” I told him with all the assurance of a bank robber trying to explain to the policeman who caught him that he was only trying to deposit his gun in the vault and the cashiers misunderstood him.

— William Tenn The Square Root of Man (1968)

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Science, my forward-looking friend, is a complex of interlocking theories, all derived from observation.

Time in Advance (1958)

Scrabbling like mad at their beloved fence, the politicians tried to avoid taking a definite position on either side.

The Wooden Star (1968)

The pull of fashion has always been that of the stampeding herd.

The Wooden Star (1968)

Haven’t you ever heard it said that money isn’t everything, but that what it isn’t it can buy?

Time in Advance (1958)

A man doesn’t volunteer for a hitch in hell just so he can knock off one of the devils.

Time in Advance (1958)

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