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  1. Charles Stross _ The Annihilation Score

    Sorry, I should have warned you." Apologies are the keystone of an enduring relationship. Failing to apologize for mistakes, or getting onto a treadmill of belittling insults, is a bad warning sign. So far we've avoided it, but .
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  2. Charles Stross _ The Annihilation Score

    Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way-
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  3. Charles Stross _ The Annihilation Score

    Alas, yes. Unfortunately our little canary has gone Section 2 on us. He's absolutely Upney;* halfway to Dagenham, in fact. We're keeping him here because he's not deemed a hazard to himself, but so far he's confessed to assassinating Margaret Thatcher-
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  4. Charles Stross _ The Annihilation Score

    That looks nasty, I hope you've got a change of clothes back at the office. I guess now we know why real superheroes wear artificial fibers.
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  5. Charles Stross _ The Annihilation Score

    Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class criminals.
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  6. Charles Stross _ The Annihilation Score

    Who knows? It's a long shot, but it just might work.
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  7. Charles Stross _ The Annihilation Score

    Twelve percent of all the photographs ever taken in human history have been taken in the last twelve months. And 40 percent of them are on Facebook.
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  8. Charles Stross _ The Annihilation Score

    Being management means having to hold your hands behind your back while your inexperienced junior staff crap all over a job you could have done in five seconds-and then taking their mess right on the chin.
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  9. Charles Stross _ The Annihilation Score

    scientific research is a bottomless money pit. You can approximate Doing Science to standing on the Crack of Doom throwing banknotes down it by the double-handful, in the hope that if you choke the volcano with enough paper it will cough up the One Ring.
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  10. Charles Stross _ The Annihilation Score

    Cocktail hour at the embassy consisted of lots of charming men and women in suits and LBDs drinking Buck's Fizz and being friendly to one another, and so what if half of them had gill slits and dorsal fins under the tailoring, and the embassy smelled of seaweed because it was on an officially derelict oil rig in the middle of the North Sea, and the Other Side has the technical capability to exterminate every human being within two hundred kilometers of a coastline if they think we've violated the Benthic Treaty?
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  11. Charles Stross _ The Annihilation Score

    This is a woman who models herself on Margaret Thatcher, only without the warmth and compassion.
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  12. Charles Stross _ The Annihilation Score

    Superman, Iron Man, Batman"-Flyaway Hair winces visibly-"you name it. Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class criminals.
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