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'Why should we obey you?' Budu asked.'Because I’m, er, omnipotent,' said Alec.
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Edward raises the pointer and places its tip against Alec’s forehead. 'What’s the use of having a library in there if you won’t open the books, boy? What’s the good of augmented intelligence if you won’t use it?'
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Terrorism was too tame for the Scots: they used lawyers.
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I’ve been in the entertainment industry ever since, in one capacity or another. It’s better than the Inquisition. Usually.
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His nation of liberty was founded on the backs of Negro slaves and at the cost of exterminating the aborigines. As far as I can tell, the Yankee’s idea of freedom is his right to carry a pistol with which he may shoot strangers in the street.
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It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.
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Any brute will demand his right to be a law unto himself, beating his wife and his children as he pleases, and defend that right with his father’s rifle and think himself a patriot.
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It’s sad when people are stupid.
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You have to be pretty damned hot and thirsty to enjoy a soy-milk smoothie, but they were, so it was okay.
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Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.
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He saw in memory Mendoza’s face, her black eyes sad as she downloaded a chapter on revolutions.Here you go. Great heroes and the things they wrecked. Always easier to destroy something than to create something. It’s harder to plant a garden than to blow up a building, and undoubtedly more boring, but you just might need to do it one day, eh?
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The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.
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Times had changed.Sooner or later, they always did.
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And what a clever guy this Harpole is, isn’t he? Awfully good at noticing all kinds of little unusual things about people and keeping them on file in his head. So he’s built a theory around us, has he? He added two and two and came up with five, but nobody else in the house was aware there was anything to count.
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'There,' Joseph said. 'There’s your answer.''It’s not an answer, little man. It’s many, many more questions.'
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'Alec is beautiful,' said Jill, bending down to kiss him.'Like a mushroom cloud!' scoffed Balkister.
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The awful bottom line, of course, is that if you’re going to rule the world, you have to have absolute power, and everybody knows what absolute power does.
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Edward holds up a hand for silence. 'If you please, Captain: he’s thinking. Let us savor the exquisite rarity of the moment.'
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I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
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'How, in this day and age, can any one of you claim to be better than your fellow human beings?''Because we are,' said Marilyn Deighton-True with a shrug. 'Face reality, Giles, or it will face you. You can spout all the socialiste nouveau crap you like, but it simply doesn’t apply to a meritocracy.'
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Just when I thought things couldn’t get any stranger, I was proven wrong.
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Doubtless he was going to start bragging about being a god. It went with the profile of this sort of lunatic.
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Justice doesn’t exist! We did worse things. Nobody deserves to go to that place, Alec said. Anyway, weren’t you Christian types supposed to forgive everybody?I will shed no tears for that bastard’s damnation, said Nicholas stonily.No wonder nobody’s left that believes in your stupid religion, said Alec.
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'Consigned to everlasting fire,' said Nicholas in a faint voice. He had gone white as chalk.'No, you medieval imbecile!' Edward clenched his fists. 'You still have no grasp of the truth, have you? Leave your angels and devils in the trash of history, where they belong.'
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