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It’s twenty minutes, maybe a half hour, from my office to Mandelbaum’s.

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The answer is yes. Toxoplasma doesn’t turn people into cat food. It does influence their behavior, though. It makes men more suspicious and less willing to accept social rules. Women, by contrast, become friendlier. The effects aren’t enormous, not in people. But they’re measurable. Parasites have evolved the ability to influence their hosts over millions of years and millions and millions of generations.

I heard the sirens while I was walking, but I didn’t pay much attention to them. You do hear sirens every so often in the city. People rob other people, or whack them over the head with fireplace pokers, or shoot them. Cars run lights and smash each other. Sirens are part of life.

Otto Skorzeny grunted. 'I can see why you went into armor, Jäger: you have no head for the subtleties.'
'What's that Hungarian curse? – a horse's cock up your arse?' Jäger said.

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„A slave who has a bad master wants a good master. A slave who has a good master wants to be free.”

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„Honesty is not always a fatal defect in a politician,” Alexander Stephens added. „Sometimes it even becomes attractive, no doubt by virtue of its novelty.”

„But there is no such thing as possessing just a little freedom,” Lee mused. „Once one enjoys any whatsoever, he will seek it all.”

Nodding also helped Jens keep a straight face. Szilard was both brilliant and cultured, and expressed himself so. But the Hungarian scientist’s accent never failed to remind Larssen of Bela Lugosi’s in Dracula. He wondered if Szilard had ever seen the movie, but lacked the nerve to ask.

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„Yes, I am a pilot. You are a guerrilla commander?”
„I'm afraid so.” he said. „There hasn't been much call for piano teachers the past few years.”
Ludmila stared again, this time for a different reason. This had been a member of the petty bourgeoisie?

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To his surprise, Douglass burst out laughing. „I beg your pardon, General,” he said, checking himself after a moment, „but, seeing you, I feel rather as if I have been ushered into the presence of the Antichrist. In that presence, the last thing I expected was a supper invitation.”
Jackson said, „You may be interested to know that, not fifteen minutes before your arrival, General Alexander compared your coming to that of the Antichrist.”
„To the unrighteous, the righteous no doubt seem wicked,” Douglass replied.

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