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A change in the form of government, why should that make a difference in the way he lived?
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It's amazing what superstitions survive in fearful minds.
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Immigration worked as a time machine, bringing up little islands of the past into the present.
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Ah, never fear; death could be trusted to show up. No doubt well before she wanted it.
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No--living on after the memory died was mere farce, pointless and awful.
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But he persevered. That was what a scientist did, confronted with an enigma.
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We've moved beyond our ability to understand our technology.
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A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.
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Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
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One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
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Thus when Hiroko came up and said, "Nadia, this crescent wrench is absolutely frozen in this position," Nadia sang to her, "That's the only thing I'm thinking of-- baby!" and took the crescent wrench and slammed it against a table like a hammer, and twiddled the dial to show Hiroko it was unstuck, and laughed at her expression. "The engineer's solution," she explained, and went humming into the lock, thinking how funny Hiroko was, a woman w..
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