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"He checked her over while mentally checking himself. "Environment suits sealed up. Breather masks in hand. Daemons. Blades. Transmitters. Healthy respect for the adversary-you've got that, right?One corner of her mouth curled up. "Absolutely."

"Equip yourself for your own needs."

"The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready."

"How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life."

"The study book for life's tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them."

"He who fails to understand that one should prepare for every single blessing will reap the problems connected with lack of preparation before the blessing."

"I pulled out Riptide."

"If you're not inthe mood, you can't do that stuff right."

"We should be ready for a change."
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"The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics."

"There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring."

"We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do."

"People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans."

"People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'"
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