Shall Machines Divide the Earth (Machine Mandate, #3)
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To be broken down is an opportunity to be reborn. To be erased is an opportunity to reinvent yourself. All you need is a will as pure and voracious as a wolf’s.
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Detective work is part guessing, part intuition. It is not exploring every possible venue but exploring the right one, following the correct leads and discarding the chaff.
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It makes me think of militaries. The last chance at redemption or upward mobility, the naked exploitation of those with nothing left to lose.
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“There isn’t a lot of difference between the military and public safety.” Both being state-sanctioned agents of ruin, frequently indiscriminate and occasionally interchangeable. Institutions of violence differ only in budget and uniforms.
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“When we shear the world in half, we demarcate with great precision: those who wield themselves like a knife and those who wield themselves like a whip.”
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Grief is an irrevocable beast: it can eat and eat until the meat and gristle are cleaned from the bones, and then it’ll crush the bones and swallow them down.