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“There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”
“Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God.""That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically."Indeed? I would like to k...”
“For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the wor...”
“Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the...”
“No one is interested in real victims, or real criminals. Not local courts, not their fellow citizens, not publishers, and not readers. Everyone simply refuses to believe them. An imaginary crime is...”
“We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.”
“If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it's not their fault, it's our fault because we fail to educate them. So responsibility resides on me, on us, to...”
“Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stop...”
“There are flowers growing in hell. Let's go pick them!”
“She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.”
“She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.”
“As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.”
“In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.”
“This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.”
“You can only rise so far by climbing on others shoulders, you know.”
“Now, this was a combination that she wouldnt dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.”
“In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.”
“Its more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.”
“Id likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to the civilization under the protection of the rules of capitalism, laws of science and rights of unive...”
“The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.”
