These songs were the true names of things, spoken by the soul, so easily buried under the little busynesses of everyman everyday. - Ian McDonald

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That old saw about a problem shared being a problem halved? Damnable lie. A problem shared is a problem doubled.

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At some point it will inevitably crash again: as weapons of mass destruction go, unrestricted market economies are among the more subtle but sure.

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She had trapped the bird of salvation, sung to it, tamed it and wrung its neck.

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