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You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?

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Look at it like this, it's not that we're making life, we're simply giving life a place to live.

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He said to people: you’re free. And they said hooray, and then he showed them what freedom costs and they called him a tyrant and, as soon as he’d bee...more

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That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.

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Do you understand what I'm saying?"shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!""Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm."What?" snapp...more

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I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to ...more

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There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we wer...more

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Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they tho...more

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I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people", said Adam severely. "Anyway, if you s...more

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His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been bo...more

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If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

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At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it...more

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I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

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The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

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If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.