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  1. Douglas Preston _ Blue Labyrinth

    Zero-sum games deal with resources that neither increase nor decrease in amount-they only shift from one player to the other.
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  2. Douglas Preston _ Blue Labyrinth

    Mrs. Trask turned to him. "When Mr. Pendergast asks for something, we do not say no.
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  3. Douglas Preston _ Blue Labyrinth

    There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. "I prefer hypocrisy to poverty." "Come to think of it, there is a rationale. Leng didn't make his money from killing. He made it from speculating in railroads, oil, and precious metals." Pendergast raised his eyebrows. "I did not know that." "There is much you still don't know about him.
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  4. Douglas Preston _ Blue Labyrinth

    You just put your boot so far up his ass, he'll have to eat his dinner with a shoehorn." "I can always count on you for a suitable bon mot.
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  5. Douglas Preston _ Blue Labyrinth

    specimens, wait until they've been examined, then put them back." "Bone librarian-a most apt description. How many visiting scientists
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  6. Douglas Preston _ Blue Labyrinth

    words, it gave a rather convincing impression of trying to elude pursuit." The dry, faintly ironic delivery
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  7. Douglas Preston _ Blue Labyrinth

    Hezekiah Pendergast," Constance continued, "was the great-great-grandfather of Aloysius-and a first-rate mountebank. He began his career as a snake-oil salesman for traveling medicine shows and, over time, devised his own 'medicine': Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Glandular Restorative.
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  8. Douglas Preston _ Blue Labyrinth

    What you're suggesting is that Hezekiah's elixir caused epigenetic changes. Such changes can and do get passed down the generations. Environmental poisons are the leading cause of epigenetic changes.
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  9. Douglas Preston _ Blue Labyrinth

    I like your custom 1911," the man said, glancing at Pendergast's weapon. "Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special? Nice-looking piece.
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  10. Douglas Preston _ Blue Labyrinth

    To one side, a vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, polished to a gem-like brilliance, sat on a flatbed trailer, ready to be taken to its new owner. Constance looked from Pendergast to the Rolls and back again. "I really don't need two, you know," he said.
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  11. Douglas Preston _ Blue Labyrinth

    sometimes not knowing can be a lot worse than knowing-even if knowing proves to be very painful.
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  12. Douglas Preston _ Blue Labyrinth

    What was that line of Sophocles from Oedipus Rex? "How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.
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