After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.
The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises...
Oh no, Ximenyr said, looking almost serious. One should never regret one’s excesses, only one’s failures of nerve.
She wanted to tell him that it was all okay, that there was nothing to worry about, that the universe was a terrible, utterly uncaring place and then people came along and added suffering and injustic...
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop. The usual examp...
I had high hopes for that girl, but too much of that sort of nonsense and I think her intelligence will explosively dismantle
One may be partially owned by another or others by having to sell one’s labor or talents to somebody with the means to buy them. In
[B]ecause of all his previous attempts to integrate with the rest of society and what he had learned about himself through them - he wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost...
[I]f I suffered only one fool gladly, I assure you it would be you.
The ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.
He thought the common people must be remarkably stupid if they believed all this nonsense.
I don’t care how self-righteous the Culture feels, or how many people the Idirans kill. They’re on the side of life—boring, old-fashioned biological life; smelly, fallible, short-sighted, God knows, b...
Sometimes what goes without saying is best said anyway.
Yes, I said. Temudjin Oh. I'd long got used to the fact that my Mongolian-extraction surname could cause some amusement amongst English speakers determined to extract a toll of discomfiture from someb...
Then the machine started to reel off infant-mortality rates and life-expectancy figures, sex ratios, types of diseases and their prevalence in the various strata of society, average incomes, the incid...
All societies are like that; the damping hand of the old and the firebrand youth together.
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.
He had to treat him as the maniac he obviously was. The fact that his insanity was dressed in religious trappings meant nothing.
How about, Yay said, magnetic fields under the base material and magnetized islands floating over oceans? No ordinary land at all; just great floating lumps of rock with streams and lakes and vegetati...
You judged your own attractiveness - physically, psychologically and in terms of status - then you knew your level and could either raise or lower your sights accordingly, risking rejection but with t...
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