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- If we like them, they're freedom fighters, she thought. If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas. Part I, 'The Message', Chapter 2, 'Coherent Light'
- ...there was something unmistakably attractive about them. They were excellent at what they did and, especially in the discovery process, were utterly absorbed in their work. Part I, 'The Message', Chapter 4, 'Prime Numbers'
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