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"Io, this is Admiral Muhan of the Martian Congressional Republic Navy. You fire anything bigger than a bottle rocket and we will glass the whole fucking moon. Do you read me?"
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"When you give certain unnecessary people the reason and permission to oppose you, give them the power and strength to oppose you."
"If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side's battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it."
"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."
"As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other."
"The devil is the initiator of persecution."
"Mine is better than ours."
"We find an abundance of anger and the desire to destroy the opposition in any competitive human environment. Hate sparks contest, and in the modern world, attorneys are the paid gladiators of warring parties. Attorneys are for hire to the highest bidder. Attorneys ply their trade by dealing in the commerce of anger and hatred."
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"They loved scenes of righteous Godly vengeance on sinful mankind. They loved to show God's chosen people safe from harm, watching with happy faces as they were proved right to the world. But they never showed the aftermath. They never showed weeping humans, crushed and dying in pools of their own fluids. Young men smashed into piles of red flesh. A young woman cut in half because she was passing through a hatchway when catastrophe hit. This was Armageddon. This is what it looked like. Blood and torn flesh and cries for help."
"On Mars, the joke went, a man's hole was his castle where values of castle approached dorm room."
"For a moment, his pupils flickered blue, like there were tiny bathypelagic fish swimming in the deep trenches of his eyeballs."
"He is, however, Amos continued, 'keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel's reactor.Holden ran his fingers through his hair. 'So not too generous, then.'Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo slug of tungsten accelerated to a detectable percentage of c."
"I'm sorry you lost the suit,' he said.She shrugged.'At this point, it was mostly a metaphor anyway,' she said..."
"He'd turned away from a life on basic to live in the stars, or if not the stars, at least the rocks that floated free in the night sky."
"Well, Han said with a sigh, 'we've gone from no-plan to stupid-plan. That's progress of a sort."
"Intellectually he knows that the blood is being pressed to the back of his body, pooling in the back part of his cerebellum and flooding his kidneys. He hasn't done enough medical work to know what that means, but it can't be good."
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