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“I didn't realize our government considered altruism one of its core competencies," {he} finally replied. "Is that why we're dropping a treaty that provides free helium-3 for the New Third World?" He started to unstrap his restraints. "I thought it was so we could prove to the orbital executives that we can keep up with their production demands.”

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Book:Gunpowder Moon

Source: Gunpowder Moon

“If you ever do something as cosmically stupid as that again, at least get it on video. You'll need a keepsake of this place when I fire your ass, and nobody will ever believe this one when you get back on the beach." Cole Benson grinned. "Right. I can't even screw up good." "Then don't screw up at all.””

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Book:Gunpowder Moon

Source: Gunpowder Moon

“If you ever do something as comically stupid as that again, at least get it on video. You'll need a keepsake of this place when I fire your ass, and nobody will ever believe this one when you get back on the beach." Cole Benson grinned. "Right. I can't even screw up good." "Then don't screw up at all.”

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Book:Gunpowder Moon

Source: Gunpowder Moon

“Isn't that how most conflicts start? With a gross miscalculation of the possibilities of escalation? A village first, then a peninsula, and then a continent? It is cold up here, commander. Cold and distant. Just a point in space from their viewpoint - valuable but aesthetically detached.”

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Book:Gunpowder Moon

Source: Gunpowder Moon

“That's the moon, commissioner: hours of boredom followed by a few seconds of terror.”

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Book:Gunpowder Moon

Source: Gunpowder Moon