"It was always dangerous when the universe fell down in a pattern where the thing you wanted and the wise path were the same."

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“I’ve been through a lot of hearings about one damn thing and another. Most of the time they’re exercises in ass covering. If the unvarnished truth ever came out at one, it would be because someone screwed up.”

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