Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them. They become politicians.
We’re on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you’ve got money.
His reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.
Pick a gender and stick with it, guys.
She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.
So government did what government always does when confronted with an opposition which can’t be brought down by fair and legal means. It cheated.
That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain.
That was the trouble with history, Oscar thought: Once the distance had grown long enough, any event could be seen favorably. The true horror faded with time, and ignorance replaced it.
That’s a huge gamble. We’re long past the time for careful certainty.
Typical case, educated way, way beyond her IQ, with ambition stronger than ability. She’s just another cause fascist, son, and that’s the worst kind; they always know they’re right. Anyone who dissent...
Walk the poor bloke past the station doctor, get the certificate signed, lock him up in a padded room, and supply him with good drugs
Back in the day, surplus harvests or an excess of rare minerals had been quietly shoved out into oblivion, assisting the market price, reaping bigger profits for the financial sectors at the expense o...
We exist to protect the majority so they can run around living their lives as decently and as best they can.
I don’t get it. There’s nothing here. Send your invasion force halfway across the galaxy so they can build a five star ski resort? That’s crazy.
I doubt any system that won’t reveal its purpose, that only offers promises of a better tomorrow.
I used to be like that once. I never gave anybody a second chance. It’s a very sad way to live your life. Do you believe the dragons should provide patternform technology to humans? Yes, I do. Denise...
If you want to understand how a government works, the laws tell you.
You are so much smarter than me, aren’t you? No. I just think things through quicker, that’s all. If that’s not a definition of smart, I don’t know what is.
It took eight generations of cousins marrying to produce you
It’s only going to take another week of this and we’re going to have the mother of all humanitarian crises on our hands. The Independencies are already living on food stocks that aren’t going to last...
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