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The Windup Girl (2009)
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The symbol for the Environment Ministry is the eye of a tortoise, for the long view—the understanding that nothing comes cheap or quickly without a hidden cost.
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If you act like a servant, you will die like a dog.
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Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.
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Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.
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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
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All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.
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She does not know how little anyone cares to separate wheat from chaff, when all anyone wants to do is burn a field.
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You're saying that you yoked the world to your patented grains and seeds, happily enslaved us all—and now you finally realize that you are dragging us all to hell.
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
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She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.
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They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.
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Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. We went down that path once, and it brought us to ruin.
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If you bargain when they squeeze your balls, they will only squeeze again.
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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
August 6, 1972
(age 52)
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