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"Life as a private investigator, slash bounty hunter wasn't all Gary Beck wanted it to be. There weren't any big mansions on a palm beach owned by an affluent writer generous enough to let him live rent-free and use his spare Ferrari. But then you have to ask yourself, what could you expect living on a planet like Deanna? As a third-rate colony in the Terran Empire, Deanna had more than its fair share of dull moments. It orbits a star called Ramalama. If you think that's funny, Deanna's two moons are called Ding and Dong, respectively (this is a local joke) and one of them falls down occasionally."
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"If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done."
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"And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself."
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"Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there."
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"God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!"
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"I always try to cheer myself up by singing when i get sad. Most of the time, it turns out that my voice is worse than my problems."
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"When you love someone, you don't care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious."
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"Looking for a wife is like fishing; before you go, make sure you don't have a hole in your net."
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"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
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"Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it."
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"You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies."
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"In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign."
Politics
"It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'."
Politics
"Swearing, d'Angelo entered the elevator. Fortunately, that was also still in order. When he got to the bridge, everything looked pretty ordinary " except for the third body of the day, which was lying spread-eagled on the deck with an almost comical look of surprise on his face. Jang was dead, although d'Angelo couldn't see the cause, but then, he was no doctor. He sighed dismally. Now he hadn't a navigator either. Or a crew for that matter."
Death
"The moment you hand over YOUR responsibility to manage your own rights, morality, and freedoms - to the government, that is the moment democracy fails."
Freedom
"Jonn Deire picked up eight yellowed and dog-eared cards from the pile, grumbling 'garrn' under his breath, while chewing on a frazzled looking toothpick. Skooch threw down a five of reds and said nothing. There was an impatient pause as the players waited for Beck to remember he had to play for Peeping William, who was still grumbling softly and rolling his eyes at intervals."
Humor
"Human rights is a numbers game. Who is going to care if only 20 people pitch for a protest?"
Society
"Only the living can learn from their mistakes."
Life
"Not many Ruminarii warships had ever been captured intact by any enemy, and so for those the Ruminarii "invited aboard their vessels, this was usually a one-way sight-seeing trip. For those who really want to know, Ruminarii Hammerheads have an extensive corridor network, the interior walls are heavily decorated, savagely militaristic and inevitably, close together. He strode down one. Lesser ranks seeing him, fell to the deck and groveled like their fingernails depended on it. There was a chorus of shrieks and whimpers as he passed. When he arrived on the bridge, everyone was face down on the deck, each endeavoring to grovel lower than the next. Nothing like discipline to keep the crew in its place."
Control
"Some people don't like 'different', it makes them scaredOf people who aren't like them, I think that's weird."
Acceptance
"We didn't think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pirates all, with what looked like necklaces of garlic around their necks. There was salt strewn on the floor in places, and it made a crunchy sound as we walked over it. Some had died clinging to crude wooden and metal crosses. Religious fanatics, I thought then " after all, isn't it usually the worst sort of people who turn to religion when they suddenly see their end approaching and they fear some kind of reckoning coming their way?"
Religion
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