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Through millions of klicks of vacuum to hit a bull’s-eye smaller than a mosquito’s asshole.
People have backed down from filling their pants to just high alert.
It was a lesson he’d never forgotten. That humans only have so much emotional energy. No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you’d just get tired and want it to end.
The human mind didn’t do well with infinite spaces. It wanted walls, horizons, limits. It would create them if it had to.
he wasn’t standing, he was lying down. Meaningless distinctions without gravity, but human brains couldn’t seem to help trying to assert direction on the directionless.
Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it.”
Nothing ever killed more people than being afraid to look like a sissy.”
Doors and corners, Miller had warned him. The places where you got killed if you weren’t paying attention.
Hello, welcome to your centuries-long voyage to build a human settlement around another star! Here’s your cubicle.
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as an option. When you can’t think of a good rebuttal for your opponent’s argument, you can always punch them in the face.
“Oh,” Anna said. She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.
