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This is my advice to parents: teach your son the language of football, at least in some measure, so that he knows enough to parlay with the enemy.

— Nick Harkaway Gnomon (2017)

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I have a need to ask questions that unravel the world.

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Is that what free will is: the right to be flogged to moral action by a deity who could make the world a paradise merely by speaking His desire?

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