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My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.
The problem was, the people who should shut up were the ones talking the most.
Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart
Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to "keep your mind on your line," as the saying went.
As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you. They like your power, they like what you will become someday.
It was as if the boundary between friendship and love was so thin and imperceptible that one could cross it without even knowing it was there.
hatch. I wouldn’t risk another high-speed dock if we don’t have to.
if he maintained that speed and went outside, the ship would appear to him as if it wasn’t moving at all since he would be moving at the same velocity. But going outside at a high velocity was risky. He’d expose himself to gamma radiation and the threat of micrometeoroids. Getting hit by a tiny rock particle would likely be fatal. Victor couldn’t take that risk. Not with so much at stake. It would
We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
The enemy may outgun us, but they will never outthink us.
Their explanations might have been completely legitimate, or they might have been sesquipedalian bushwa.
The war on apathy moved much slower than real wars fought on the ground.
There wasn’t a trace of thrusters now.
We’re businessmen, Chubs. The moral high ground is wherever we set it.

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