The Best of Cordwainer Smith
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He drafted leaflets explaining how the soldiers could surrender by shouting the Chinese words for “love,” “duty” “humanity” and “virtue”—words that happened, when pronounced in that order, to sound like “I surrender” in English. He considered this act to be the single most worthwhile thing he had done in his life.
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The simple truth is the fact that a lonely woman went through a mysterious door. That is all. Everything else happened later.)
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Things were once simple, when everything that talked was a human being and everything which did not talk was not.
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to harvest the experience of each for the wisdom of all.