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Book: New York 2140
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  1. Kim Stanley Robinson _ New York 2140

    One thought ever at the fore--That in the Divine Ship, the World, breasting Time and Space, All Peoples of the globe together sail, sail the same voyage, are bound to the same destination. I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?
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  2. Kim Stanley Robinson _ New York 2140

    Art is not truth. Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth. said Picasso
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  3. Kim Stanley Robinson _ New York 2140

    She recalled hearing how after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, they had built prison camps faster than medical facilities. They had expected riots and so had put people of color in jail preemptively. But that was back in the twentieth century, in the dark ages, the age of fascisms both home and abroad. Since
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  4. Kim Stanley Robinson _ New York 2140

    They published their papers, and shouted and waved their arms, and a few canny and deeply thoughtful sci-fi writers wrote up lurid accounts of such an eventuality, and the rest of civilization went on torching the planet like a Burning Man pyromasterpiece
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  5. Kim Stanley Robinson _ New York 2140

    Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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  6. Kim Stanley Robinson _ New York 2140

    We live in a world where people pretend money can buy you anything, so money becomes the point, so we all work for money.
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  7. Kim Stanley Robinson _ New York 2140

    Fungibility, n. The tendency of everything to be completely interchangeable with money. Health, for instance.
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  8. Kim Stanley Robinson _ New York 2140

    Every ideal and value seemed to melt under a drenching of money, the universal solvent. Money money money. The fake fungibility of money, the pretense that you could buy meaning, buy life.
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  9. Kim Stanley Robinson _ New York 2140

    Labor, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property for B. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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  10. Kim Stanley Robinson _ New York 2140

    Efficiency, n. The speed and frictionlessness with which money moves from the poor to the rich.
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  11. Kim Stanley Robinson _ New York 2140

    But the problem of utopia, of collective meaning, is to find an individual meaning. -Fredric Jameson, An American Utopia
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  12. Kim Stanley Robinson _ New York 2140

    Charlotte poured a stiff Irish coffee for herself, wanting both stimulation and sedation. It didn't work, in fact it backfired, making her antsy but confused. An anti-Irish coffee, must be an English coffee.
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