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“Free at last! Free at last! All our children are free at last!”
“The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren’t the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.”
Most predators at the tops of food chains did more like five percent.” “This is why tigers have ranges of hundreds of square kilometers,” Vlad said. “Robber barons are not really very efficient.”
“We start every meal this way,” the old woman said. “It is a little sign of how we are together. We have studied the old cultures, before your global market netted everything, and in those ages there existed many different forms of exchange. Some of them were based on the giving of gifts. Each of us has a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back.”
“It’s bullshit, but what the hell,” Bench Press said. “Why not? Why not? Call it our world. Call it Nova Africa. Say no boss is gonna take it away from us this time.” He was laughing again, as if everything he had said was no more than a funny idea. Or else a hilarious truth, a truth so delicious that just saying it made you laugh out loud.
