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• We should be glad we're living in the time that we are.
  If any of us had been born into a more enlightened age, I'm sure we would have immediately been taken out and shot....
• Tarmin: "It's been three centuries since we treated anyone for this.
  ..this form of rape. But there are medical records from that era....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• We are on the brink of descruc- destruction. -- Doctor, Edge of Destructio
• A]s for the rest of the distance around the inhabited earth which has not been visited by us up to the present time (because of the fact that the navigators who sailed in opposite directions never met)
  it is not of very great extent, if we reckon from the parallel distances that have been traversed by us....
• My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable.
  ... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch....
• My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable.
  ... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch....
• We have given away far too many freedoms in order to be free.
  Now it's time to take some back. -- John Le Carre -- One of the George Smiley book...