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"Now, come over here so I can pat you down.""But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure."He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down."You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?""Yes," Percy said. "I declare that this is stupid."
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"If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork."
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"It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure."
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"Now, come over here so I can pat you down.""But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure."He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down."You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?""Yes," Percy said. "I declare that this is stupid."
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"Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy."
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"Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records."
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"Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law."
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"Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling."
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"I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious."
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"Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives to keep a watchful eye on any provincial problems. They are administered by local commanders, who liaise with the national offices for information exchange, guidance and policy decisions. Like any other big government department, it looks good on paper but is an utter shambles. Petty infighting and political agendas, arrogance and sheer bloody-mindedness almost guarantees that the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing."
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"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
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"Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos."
Family
"When in doubt," Calypso said, "Tater Tots."
Comfort
"Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever."
Friendship
"It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape."
Humor
"Where his eyes should've been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions."
Horror
"And you, Percy, are my favorite son."
Family
"Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace.""Whatever," the god said."
Recognition
"You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around."
Danger
"Please!' That word didn't make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice. 'You're already dead,' Nico said. 'You're a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won't be sharing any secrets."
Justice
"He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen on TV), and a Swiss army knife-pretty much every tool a modern demigod could want."
Survival
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