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1 " Unknowing, the fate of the old had crept up on him, and now he’d become the one who provided strategy and expected others to implement it—the one they all rightly bitched about in the pub after work. When did this happen to me? "
― Peter F. Hamilton , Salvation Lost (Salvation Sequence #2)
2 " Does it hurt?” “Fucking fuck! "
3 " Don’t waste your breath. You can’t help the terminally stupid. If people hate government so much they don’t listen to official advice, they can’t expect government to bend over backward to help them. "
4 " One addiction laid you open to others in a fast downward spiral. "
5 " My sympathies.’ ‘Don’t waste your breath. You can’t help the terminally stupid. If people hate government so much they don’t listen to official advice, they can’t expect government to bend over backwards to help them. "
6 " It’s not governments I have an issue with—or not the concept of democratic government, anyway. But all we have now is rule by rich people, the ones who keep ninety percent of the world in relative poverty so their unbalanced market can continue paying for a lifestyle of total excess. "
7 " Underneath the drones, the pedestrians and board riders along Plough Lane had stopped to look around in confusion as power and digital connectivity was taken from them—basic human rights since before they were born "
8 " Queuing to pick up their Darwin Award, "
9 " Ideologues are welcome to live with the values they admire, I have no problem with that, but you have to give the next generation the freedom and ability to go their own way. Anything else is fascism. "
10 " Humans are so fascinating, aren’t we? If ten of us are each given our own piano, we’ll play eleven different tunes. "