"All the food chemists in the system will never do better than evolution at making a decent tea leaf."

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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.”

“The engineers groaned and shook their heads. Legal arguments were another phrase for bullshit to them.”

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“She couldn’t beat sense into a stone. Not even when it seemed fun to try.”

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