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She was going to get to stay alive. At the same time, she and the others got very little information from the planet, and had to piece things together from a jumble of clues. She'd compared notes on this with Ivy, who had confirmed that even she had little to go on, and what she did hear contradicted itself from hour to hour. It had all become Kremlinology. Back in the heyday of the Soviet Union, the only way for Westerners to guess wha..
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The difference between stupid and intelligent people-and this is true whether or not they are well-educated-is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations-in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.
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The Deliverator does not know for sure what happens to the driver in such cases, but he has heard some rumors. Most pizza deliveries happen in the evening hours, which Uncle Enzo considers to be his private time. And how would you feel if you bad to interrupt dinner with your family in order to call some obstreperous dork in a Burbclave and grovel for a late fucking pizza? Uncle Enzo has not put in fifty years serving his family and his cou..
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Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot. Not enough roads for the number of people. Fairlanes, Inc. is laying new ones all the time. Have to bulldoze lots of neighborhoods to do it, but those seventies and eighties developments exist to be bulldozed, right?
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Now the roads just feed into a parking system -- not a lot, not a ramp, but a system -- and lose their identity. Getting through the intersection involves tracing paths through the parking system, many braided filaments of direction like the Ho Chi Minh trail. CSV-5 has better throughput, but Cal.12 has better pavement. That is typical -- Fairlanes roads emphasize getting you there, for Type A drivers, and Cruiseways emphasize the enjoyment..
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The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit. All of them were Russian. There
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Ammonia worked better, but it was dangerous, and you couldn't easily get more of it in space. If the Cloud Ark survived, it would survive on a water-based economy. A hundred years from now everything in space would be cooled by circulating water systems. But for now they had to keep the ammonia-based equipment running as well. Further
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He was emotionally worn out from wondering what she really thought of him, and confused by the fact that he cared so deeply about her opinion. And she, maybe, was beginning to think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't. Hiro
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scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings.
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THREE DAYS NORTH of the Danube, the road focused to a rut in a crowd of scrawny trees that were striving to rise clear from a haze of grasping weeds.
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Not as romantic as a dozen roses," she countered. "Still," he said, "what is it that a man is trying to say with a dozen roses? Simply that he is thinking of you." Shortly"
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When he came to his senses, he was aware that a large number of telephones were singing their little electronic songs. Including his. The birth cry of a new age.
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I didn't think you talked to people in the Metaverse." "I do if I want to get through to someone in a hurry," she says. "And I'll always talk to you." "Why me?" "You know. Because of us. Remember? Because of our relationship -- when I was writing this thing -- you and I are the only two people who can ever have an honest conversation in the Metaverse." "You're just the same mystical crank you always were," he says, smiling so as to make thi..
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She eyes him warily. Exactly the same way she did when he came into her office years ago. It comes into his mind to wonder why she is always so alert in his presence. In college, he used to think that she was afraid of his intellect, but he's known for years that this is the last of her worries. At Black Sun Systems, he figured that it was just typical female guardedness -- Juanita was afraid he was trying to get her into the sack. But this..
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Is this part of your church thing?" he asks. Juanita has been using her excess money to start her own branch of the Catholic church -- she considers herself a missionary to the intelligent atheists of the world. "Don't be condescending," she says. "That's exactly the attitude I'm fighting. Religion is not for simpletons." "Sorry. This is unfair, you know -- you can read every expression on my face, and I'm looking at you through a fucking b..
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one (everything looks the same in America, there are no transitions now).
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No point in describing the office. No point in even allowing the office to even register on her eyeballs and take up valuable memory space in her brain. Fluorescent lights and partitions with carpet glued to them. I prefer my carpet on the floor, thank you. A color scheme. Ergonomic shit. Chicks with lipstick. Xerox smell. Everything's pretty new, she figures.
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The ports were individually numbered with glowing digits, and annotated, in the mixture of Latin and Cyrillic used throughout the ring, as to their purposes: TRANZIT IMMIGRAShON MILITARY CURVEY CPETs
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The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating "fuckface" into Nipponese, but it might translate into "emotional intensity" in football lingo." --
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Algunos dicen que la bipolaridad es una adaptacion util. Cuando las cosas van mal, te deprimes, te retiras, conservas energia. Cuando las cosas van bien, te mueves con gran energia. --?Y
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Henry, que en aquel momento tenia once anos, no habia prestado atencion al proceso de elevar el imponente cohete hasta su posicion vertical porque se distrajo viendo un par de perros callejeros copulando a unos cien metros del punto de lanzamiento. El
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Creo que lo que Camila quiere decir es que ciertos tipos de personalidad, si se llevan al extremo, son tan negativos como una enfermedad mental; si no peores
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from a hundred to a hundred and fifty kilometers, depending on how fat you were and whether
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Se podian haber planteado todo tipo de argumentos filosoficos sobre si ese enfoque era mejor o peor que lo que estaban haciendo en realidad, pero, en el fondo, la filosofia no contaba demasiado.
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The doctor had been dousing her hands with a sort of ointment they use, scented like bad gin. It is a ritual with them.
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amistica, un termino acunado hacia eones por un antropologo moirano para referirse a las elecciones que hacian las diferentes culturas en cuanto a que tecnologias formarian parte de su vida y cuales no.
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Hey," Shaftoe says, "if we surrender to you, you'll kill us. Right?" "Yes." "If you guys surrender to us, we won't kill you. Promise. Scout's honor." "For us, living or dying is not the important thing," Goto Dengo says. "Hey! Tell me something I didn't fucking already know!" Shaftoe says. "Even winning battles isn't important to you. Is it?" Goto Dengo looks the other way, shamefaced. "Haven't you guys figured out yet that banzai charges D..
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Pero el mundo no lo llevan cientificos e ingenieros, ?es lo que pretendes decir?
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people with hopes were apt to become profligate in spending resources and taking risks. Which
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Back in very ancient times, when the marble columns of the Halls of Orithena still rose from the black rock of Ecba, all the world's theors would gather beneath the great dome just before noon. Their leader (at first, Adrakhones himself; later, Diax or one of his other fids) would stand on the analemma, waiting for the shaft of light from the oculus to pass over him at midday: a climax celebrated by the singing of the Anathem to our mother ..
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Pelear no es cuestion de saber hacerlo, sino de decidir hacerlo.>>
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