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  1. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    you can't learn from a fatal mistake.
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  2. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    If an ancient horror invites you into its limousine at gunpoint-
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  3. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    You have imposter syndrome," He says, "but paradoxically, that's often a sign of competence. Only people who understand their work well enough to be intimidated by it can be terrified by their own ignorance. It's the opposite of Dunning-Kruger syndrome, where the miserably incompetent think they're on top of the job because they don't understand it.
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  4. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    One does not simply walk into Mordor these days; one drives a rented Cadillac Escalade the size of a county, shiny black and chrome, with a fake walnut dash, and enough black leather to clothe a battalion of Hell's Angels.
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  5. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    Compliance with the mile-high stack of social expectations you grow up with as a girl turns out to be mandatory if you want to get ahead in business. Be blonde, be skinny, and don't forget to smile, bitch.
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    I wince at his casual disrespect as I follow Captain Perceval into the rear.
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  7. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    A powerful glamour has engulfed the United States of America. It's not the first time, of course-that nation is a shining temple to amnesia with its foundations built atop the bones of vanished empires"
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  8. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    But his former day job-he is still a vicar, and his bishop is remarkably reluctant to raise a fuss about his apparent conscription by a secret government agency devoted to issues which can best be described as ungodly {or worse, wrong godly}-taught him a lot about helping people.
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  9. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    Our new allies are weak and unreliable and mean us ill. We need a new kind of arsenal if we are to defend democracy and freedom, and the first step in rebuilding our defenses is to build a hypercomputing cloud in solar orbit, one powerful enough to summon the Lord of Sleep to lead us…
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  10. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    There's a fire on the hillside just above Skyland and it's like to go wild if we
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  11. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    It felt like going commando in a miniskirt on a Saturday night in town, even after Jim sent an email to ensure that there'd be a shiny new Samsung waiting for me in DC. Not knowing I could check my team's timesheets on my phone at 3 a.m. felt profoundly wrong.
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  12. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    Apocalypses are easier slept through than experienced.
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