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“I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system.”

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...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

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“For after all, if the lives of most men are examined in detail, it will be found that they have been experts of immense…

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