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“I can’t do magic,” Galdoreth said. “You certainly can’t do it with that attitude. Push an imaginary force down your arm.”
He made a flour and egg coating after marinating the chicken in this world’s equivalent to salt, thyme, basil, oregano, celery salt, black pepper, dried mustard (or a close relative), paprika (almost the same as Earth), garlic, ginger, and another pepper. He coated the chicken and then dropped them into the hot oil, sealed the pressure cooker, and cooked the chicken for eight minutes once it reached the proper pressure.
Repeat what I say: I SOLEMLY PLEDGE to commit my life to the service of sentient life. I will respect intelligent life with the health of my patient as my first consideration, and I will endeavor to let my treatment do no harm. I will respect the secrets confided in me, even after the patient has died. I WILL OFFER HEALING where I can regardless of remuneration. I WILL NOT PERMIT considerations of age, disease or disability, creed, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, race, species, political affiliation, sexual orientation, social standing, or any other factor to intervene between me and my
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“One of our scientists said, ‘The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.’
He ran his finger through the progression of the glyphs. There were no runes. He decided that runes were magicians object language like Java or Python computer languages used to be. Glyphs must be the Assembly machine language programming closer to the real nuances of the spell.
Lee took 300 grams of the starchy corn flour, some baking powder he had from Darvist, salt, and 200 grams of water to make slightly flattened dough balls lightly coated in oil to keep them from drying out. Then he heated the stove and started making a red enchilada sauce and cooking black beans. He pulled out a chunk of chicken, cutting up into small bits and cooked it with diced onions and chilies. The red enchilada sauce was made with oil, flour, chili powder, with cumin, garlic, and a dried herb like oregano. He added some chicken broth he had from Darvist. He flash-fried the flattened
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People will scramble to hold on to power and the less power they have, the fiercer they fight to hold on to those last dregs,”
There is always a simple answer to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.”
The surest way to see if someone is compatible is to take a two-week trip with them.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.’
They are very curious on my planet. My people think they are as smart as people, which isn’t a high bar in most cases,” he said. Mira laughed. “You didn’t say they are as smart as politicians.” “They are much smarter than that. I’d hate to insult dolphins like that,”
There is always an easy answer to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong,”
Have you ever heard that a small leak might sink a great ship?” Pommerall asked, “Are you the great ship?” “I prefer to think of myself as the small leak… the pebble in the shoe of those with grand, nefarious plans.”
“The chain-of-command is designed to bring order to chaos. We have always used the KNOW method. Who knows more than you should be higher in leadership status. Your method seems to instill more confidence in the soldiers for their leaders, and produces far faster buy-in to the orders given them. Did everyone choose the sergeants and then the sergeants self-selected who wasn’t ready – those became corporals? Then the sergeants suggested who would make good lieutenants up the chain.
IF we can stop this war. Who do we have to convince or kill? I don’t mind doing either.”
people are going to be persnickety. When Lee had asked great gramps what he meant, he got examples. He’d say if you gave out free money, people would complain they didn’t get a free wallet or purse. Then he’d talk about vaccines and how people would resist medical treatments because they did one web search. Lux used to tell Lee that modern people were ‘pancake people’ who had a wide range of knowledge, but that knowledge wasn’t deep. It was thick as a pancake or two references deep.
the girls looked adorable. Who knew that covering them up made them look so delectable? Lee thought.
