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Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.

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Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don’t know, comfort. The sense you’re where you’re supposed to be, with so...more

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You can’t afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.

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You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost you much to do it. I’d rather apologize for something...more

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Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time. And there’s nothing roman...more