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“We will not be gods, you or I. We will not look into that mirror. Instead, for those last few days you have left, you are mortal at last.” (p. 405)

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“In 1959 the first personal computer - rather optimistically dubbed the future machine by an inventor, so dazzled with his own brilliance - he couldn’t think of anything better, was on sale. It was the size of small wardrobe and had a life of approximately four months before the internal parts melted under the strain, but it was nevertheless a sign of things to come.” (p. 322)

“What would this conversation have been like, I wondered, if I was only eighteen years old? Now, in my eight hundred and forty-ninth year, it was almost funny. I informed her I would consider my position most carefully. She sniffed some empty words in reply and dismissed me with a wave. I made it to the end of the corridor before I burst out laughing.” (p. 314)

“It was a reminder of the old truth that for tyranny to flourish all it required was the complicity of good men.” (p. 288)

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