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The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not."
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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e6b6042
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots."
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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind--but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all--no one's around to write horror stories.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try."
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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So high, so low, so many things to know.
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There is a deepness in the sky, and it extends forever.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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