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1 " He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase. "
― Anne McCaffrey , Acorna's Quest (Acorna #2)
2 " A man didn’t specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships. "
3 " Pick on our clients, will you, you parasitical, piratical, putrefied parcels of puking pus-filled perverts. "
4 " Calum patted her shoulder and prayed to the Gods of Balanced Equations "
5 " what we call a chaotic system—meaning that its adjacent solutions diverge exponentially in time. "
6 " I like opera just fine; it’s people I wanted to get away from.” As "
7 " chuckled, referring to the time Markel had used up sixty percent of the system’s resources to simulate a series of space battles in real time for one of his war games. Markel flushed. "
8 " (Meli, are you sure these "humans" are on our side?)(No ... but at least they are not Khieevi.)(That is beginning to seem less and less of a recommendation. Like us in form, perhaps, but hardly in ethics.)(That may not be entirely a bad thing. If they meet their friends with weapons in both hands, what do you suppose they do to their enemies?) "
