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A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding...and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.
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new-year
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cca0db8
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Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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But his political sense kept up a persistent itch that said: A, Given ignorance in the mix, stupidity was at least as common in politics as astute maneuvering; B, Crisis always drew insects; and, C, Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.
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politics
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08130f6
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Trouble didn't just come in threes: it gathered passengers as it went, and crashed nastily into bystanders.
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41f8387
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I'm not a person who stands still well. But the the earth is always in motion, and I like keeping up with it. I don't want just to exist. I want to know. I want to see. I want to understand.
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a038c3f
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Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.
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humor
watch
enemies
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2537665
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Yes, ma'am," he said, and folded his hands and stopped where he was, listening, waiting while a very sick woman tried to gather her faculties. "First off, tell the dowager she's a right damn bastard." It was no time for a translator to argue. Mitigation, however, was a reasonable tactic. "Aiji-ma, Sabin-aiji has heard our suspicions regarding Tamun and received assurances from me and Gin-aiji that we have not arranged a coup of our own. She..
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Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish...."
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Tabini was at least canny enough in the differences between atevi and human to know that, gut level, he might think he understood - but chances were very good that he wouldn't, couldn't, and never would, unaided by the paidhi, come up with the right forecast of human behavior because he didn't come with the right hardwiring. Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
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gut-reaction
think
thinking
instinct
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55fd178
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I would suggest that you remember she is old because some of her enemies are dead.
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Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here?
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death
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He said sometimes when you're young you have to think about things, because you're forming your value-sets and you keep coming up with Data Insufficient and finding holes in your programs. So you keep trying to do a fix on your sets. And the more powerful your mind is and the more intense your concentration is, the worse damage you can do to yourself, which is why, Justin says, Alphas always have trouble and some of them go way off and out-..
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self-awareness
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b4e711f
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When it is necessary to survive, then one cannot be brave anymore.
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cb145c9
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What we individually deserve isn't as much as what we collectively merit.
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ab8b195
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He had no wish to be killed by a bogle in which he resolutely did not believe.
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Myself, I love the woods. I love the wild places. Ask me where I'd go for a vacation and it invariably involves the open country. Ask me where I'd live, however, and it would always be in the center, in the beating heart of a city.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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4569e93
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Intimidation needs response, bait needs biting. If you do neither, the attacker has nothing to build on.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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c8d4222
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Not advisable is spread thickly over this entire situation.
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humor
observation
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542770c
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There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.
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inaction
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C.J. Cherryh |
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Women did such things and went on doing them while the sun died because in all of women's lives there were so many moments that would kill the mind if one thought about them, which would suck the heart and the life out of one, and engrave lines in the face and put gray in the hair if ever one let one's mind work; but there was in the rhythm and the fascination of the stitches a loss of thought, a void, a blank, that was only numbers and not..
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265aaba
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Trust was a word you couldn't translate. But the atevi had fourteen words for betrayal.
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14cbdfb
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Brains and sex fight each other to control your life, and thank God brains get a head start before sex comes along.
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What you need Lois, is a man. All your artistic brilliance, wasted, toiling away in the sordid day-to-day of White's little paper empire. Reporting on traffic mishaps. Domestic trifles. Wondering if you can afford a pair of shoes. Knowing you can't afford the really good wines, the really exquisite things. That suit, for instance. Nice, but not the standard you're used to." "We're not here to discuss my wardrobe." "Or your writing career? H..
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There is your best path, if you can get on it and direct it as best you can. The direction it may take yet is not in your power: but what sort of man walks that path, when you are a man, that you decide.
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Clark. Superman. She loved two men. It was extraordinary how alike and how different they were.-Lois Lane
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It was a monumental achievement that the serpentine tc'a had once upon a time gotten the knnn to understand the concept of trade: so nowadays knnn simply contacted a station, rushed onto its methane-dock and deposited whatever they liked, grabbed whatever they wanted and left. This was an improvement over their former behavior, in which they simply looted and left.
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funny
piracy
negotiation
trade
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a665167
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Baji-naji, nand' paidhi. Fortune has a human face and bastard Chance whores drunken down your streets.
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But there was someone she knew who could speak with a special knowledge on the Cross-Lexcorp controversy. Someone she'd rather not deal with. Someone she'd as soon not see again as long as she lived. Her former fiance. Lex. Lex Luthor. - Lois Lane
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For another--you can move faster than she can. You are as recognizable as she is. And you are willing to take cover. We are not so certain about the dowager.
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Yes, aiji-ma." "What is this agreement? You are most valuable when you argue, paidhi! Do not say yes to me!" "I shall most strenuously object when you are wrong, aiji-ma. You have been infallibly right at least this last hour." "Ha."
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One tribe moves out and one tribe stays. History broadens, and philosophy shifts, develops a rift, splits one population from the other . . . and a schism happens, minor or major. It's the way humankind has always proliferated. We go over the next hill, live a few hundred years, change our languages to accommodate things we never saw before--and before we know it, our cousins think we have an accent. Or we think they have a strange attitude..
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the necessity of getting up. He made it that far. Ended up with Banichi's arm around him, Banichi standing on one leg. The dowager-aiji said something rude about young men falling at her feet, and go sit down, SHE was in command of the plane.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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Could there be a snare in too much beauty? Could there be too much expectation of good, and too much fiath? Could ever there be too much love? And could love require lies?
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love
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Poisoning us," Bren said, faced with what was a truly attractive service, and with the servants still in the room, "is a process of inconveniently many steps, though conservative of the furniture. One believes we may just have breakfast this morning, nadiin-ji."
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poisoning
poison
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a716056
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You know its shape, since you have it. Give it up, and be paid. Or don't--and be paid, hani, be paid then too.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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67f1939
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Before is the only time you own, the only before you can trust is now, and you don't even know how long before is.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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If your fiance tended to come sailing in windows without notice, you didn't have extra time to run and gather up messes. She dropped everything into the hamper and stepped into a hot, steamy shower, soap with no cloying scent, just clean. Just her again. And her eyes shut while she was standing there. She'd slip down the shower wall and go to sleep there, but she was already getting stiff. She got out, delved into the medicine cabinet for a..
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C.J. Cherryh |
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981520a
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Flying was no cure for want of sleep. The brain wanted time to recycle: when it became all one long, uninterrupted day, the ability to keep going and to keep thinking was no warrant it was healty even for Superman.-Superman
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superman
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C.J. Cherryh |
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44a1fca
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Lois. Oh... no. Lois. Dinner. His name ... be it Clark Kent or Superman ...was mud. -Clark Kent
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superman
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C.J. Cherryh |
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79c4e87
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A fine lady she weren't, oh, but a damn fine woman and a brave one....
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C.J. Cherryh |
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The world was so beautiful, and there was so much of it: he could gaze forever at the wonder of leaves and not see them all: could inhale the wind and not smell all its scents, hear the sounds of men and horses and not hear all the sounds of the woods, and taste the thousand flavors in stale water and still find it wonderful... because it was not the darkness.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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it struck at the root of intentions, not at the flower. And both root and the flower were important to him, one having to do with what one meant to do... and the other, most fearsome, with the outcome of it.
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outcome
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C.J. Cherryh |
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0828a6d
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But, oh, how precious those things were! To look at the sky, breathe the cold wind, have fingers nipped by chill and skin stung red and heart stirred to life, gods, he had been dead until Tristen arrived and asked him the first vexing question, and posed him the first insoluble puzzle, and marveled at hailstones and mourned over falling leaves. What miracles there were all around....
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C.J. Cherryh |
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03da535
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What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated issues; no pictures, no news; no news, no event; no great sympathy on the part of the public nor sustained interest from the media: safe politics for the Company.
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news
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