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Catalyst
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Michael C. Grumley11,780 ratings, 4.39 average rating, 513 reviews
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“These men lived in the glow of the most prized possession of all: ultimate power. The one constant that eventually changed all men before enslaving them. Power was the greatest of all drugs. In monarchies, these men were kings. In Communism, they were dictators. In republics and democracies, they were politicians and generals.”
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― Catalyst
“He reached forward and answered it. “Hey, Will.” “Hi, Clay. I wake you up?” “No. I was just sitting here wondering why we don’t talk more.”
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“belief that ultimately, no matter where they lived, regular people were all the same. More than anything else, they wanted to grow old. To raise healthy children and to help one another. In the end, most people simply wanted to leave the world a better place. Distant enemies, he was convinced, were simply the product of political brainwashing. Clay”
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“isn’t just what’s happened or where we’ve been, Alison. History is about our place in the”
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“What happens to all of us when the world realizes how deep this goes? It’s like discovering extraterrestrials. Realizing that we really aren’t alone in the universe. Hell, we’re not even alone on the planet. We never were.”
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“There is a fine line between skepticism and optimism. Skeptics want you to prove it and optimists want you to believe it. And speaking from deep in the former’s camp, I will admit there is a certain resistance there to big ideas.” Alison shrugged. “Skeptics keep optimists grounded.”
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― Catalyst
“If there was a historical lineage, it meant a cognitive progression. More than just memories or culture, it explained why their intelligence was so much more advanced than many other animals. Real knowledge had many components, not the least of which were lessons or learnings passed down through multiple generations.”
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“Alison stared at them, momentarily transfixed. Their elders taught them. And they taught them things older than they were. Her excitement was swelling. If what Sally and Dirk just told her was correct, it was big. Huge. It meant that dolphins had more than just language and culture. They had history!”
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“It was the first time Alison had seen that word translated: connect. But it verified what she had suspected. It wasn’t just a journey they carried out every year, it was a migration of some kind. A return to something deeper and more meaningful to them. And not just individually, but collectively. As a group. It was culture!”
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“Alison was growing fearful of finding out that humans might not be very human after all. That rather than contributing to the world as it really was, they were instead gradually destroying it under a veneer of “progress.” The last thing she wanted to do was become even more disappointed in herself or her race.”
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“what they’d found was not just exciting, it was frightening. Frightening in its potential to disrupt what they as humans had assumed for so long: that somehow animals without familiar or recognizable communicative abilities were little more than cute creatures in a kingdom over which humans claimed dominion.”
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“The rest of the video played out exactly as the two men remembered it. They could see everyone, including themselves, huddled on the stern of the ship where Krogstad had ordered them. If he couldn’t outrun the torpedo, his only other option would be to save as many as he could. On the stern, survivors had the best chance of deploying the lifeboats. The rest of the ship was sacrificed to take as much of the blow as possible. When it was over, Borger stopped the video and leaned back. “That’s only the second time I’ve seen it.”
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“Dirk stared at her, quizzically. D Ann sad. “A little.” DeeAnn still couldn’t quite get used to the way IMIS pronounced her name during a translation. According to Lee, the computers seemed to have trouble resolving a double “e” following the letter “d.” He didn’t understand it either, but the resulting pronunciation sounded more like “D-an” with a stutter. It wasn’t a big deal, but it always reminded her that a machine was ultimately behind the translations.”
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― Catalyst
“Clay nodded, as the pieces fell into place. “They’d been bringing those crates out of the jungle for months. But there was no way they could have fit it into just one warship. It’s too small. Unless they gutted the ship. Removing everything inside gave them the storage they needed, which meant it also left the ship defenseless. Their submarine was simply waiting, ready to clear a path for it.” Langford watched the expression on Clay’s face. The guy never forgot anything. Given enough time, he could figure damn near anything out.”
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“Langford rubbed his chin. “Then we have to assume that this Otero now knows everything.” After a deep breath, he leaned forward again. “Let’s table that for the moment. It seems we have an even bigger problem to deal with. I just received a report from the salvage team near Guyana. They have recovered fragments of the torpedo and enough of its Comp-B explosive signature for a positive identification.” Langford paused, looking at Clay and Borger. “The Bowditch wasn’t sunk by the Russians like we thought. It was sunk by the Chinese.”
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“Dead?” Borger repeated, confused. “But we traced that call he made right before he turned his cell off just an hour ago.” “Yeah well, I don’t think he was the one who turned it off. I found him in his room beaten to a pulp. The Sosa woman was already gone and Blanco was just minutes away. I couldn’t do anything.”
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“As far as I can tell, answers about Alves. Whoever this Otero is, he was looking for something specific. Money is easy to trace, but Blanco and his girlfriend looked like they were subjected to some serious narco-interrogation, followed by a lethal cocktail. Either way, I’m sure Otero didn’t expect someone like me to show up before Blanco was dead.”
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“regular people were all the same. More than anything else, they wanted to grow old. To raise healthy children and to help one another. In the end, most people simply wanted to leave the world a better place.”
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― Catalyst
“A belief that ultimately, no matter where they lived, regular people were all the same. More than anything else, they wanted to grow old. To raise healthy children and to help one another. In the end, most people simply wanted to leave the world a better place. Distant enemies, he was convinced, were simply the product of political brainwashing.”
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― Catalyst
“The unfortunate truth was that politicians started wars but relied on men like Langford to fight them.”
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“They’re learning our ways.” “They hear us coming,” Claudio, the third man, replied. “Then what do you suggest?” Vito turned around and faced the cages on the back of the truck. “Maybe we can use the ones we have…to catch more.” “You mean as bait?”
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“coincidence. When we return, we will deal with them…and their family.” Unless it really is the U.S. But why would they want retribution for Blanco? Russo shook his head. “Something doesn’t feel right. The timing of it all.” He turned back to Otero. ”
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