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What is destiny for any human being? What becomes of probabilities that collapse out of the timeline? Does destiny depend on who witnesses?

— Lisa Mason The Golden Nineties (1995)

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What is the value of a life when the world is burdened with twelve billion people?

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If women go into politics, they’ll wind up as bad as men.

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That’s what failure did to: run you out, plucked your bones, sucked you dry. It was revolting. A failed man is a loathsome thing.

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