As a matter of fact I did flirt with Socialism, in my youth."" That when you were in university, was it?" He smiled. "Yes. University. But then I saw how much more comfortable life could be as one of the exploiters rather than one of the exploited. Plus I decided that if the proles were so stupid as to let themselves be exploited, who was I to stand in their way? Iain M. Banks
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  1. HARV, can you help at all here?” I asked, spinning downward.“ I am writing your obituary. Well, not so much writing it as updating it, ” HARV told me. If I lived, I was going to kill HARV.
  2. HARV appeared in front of me, arms crossed, head tilted. “You really should read your e-mails from Randy more carefully, ” he lectured.“ I skim them, ” I protested.“ Well, if you skimmed them more carefully you would know that prolonged exposure to stealth mode...
  3. Walking into Nova Hollywood, I remembered why I didn’t come here more often. I like a good slice of cheese as much as the next guy, but this place would be too cheesy for a giant mutant rat who had been starving for a week.
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