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Wonderful,” Rodney said again. “I wonder how many more of our former allies are going to have been Culled like this?” “That’s what I like about you, McKay,” Sheppard said. “You’re an optimist.
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Once in a thousand years the sea/ smothers the moon at my window/ opens a gate in my heart:
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Jo Graham (Homecoming (Stargate Atlantis, #16))
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You’ve got that wrong. I care what the people I care about think. But the rest of the sheep can trot off a cliff.
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Reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated,” Sheppard said. He’d always wanted to use that line.
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Papers, books, a laptop, a blackberry, and a half-empty cup of coffee littered its usually pristine walnut surface.
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Atlantis currently has more than two hundred drones remaining, even after our encounter with the hive ship.
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Oh, I’m fine! People booby-trap DHDs that I’m working on every day!” Rodney paused. “Actually, that’s truer than I’d like.
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Yes, I’m wearing a baby,” Sheppard said. “It’s very funny. Can we get past that?
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There are always people making decisions you can’t control. But you decide what you’re willing to do. What you can live with. At the end of the day, that’s the only thing you can control.
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Jo Graham (Homecoming (Stargate Atlantis, #16))
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But the fact remained that a tense situation just made McKay think faster. You could probably phrase it as an equation, where the increasing awfulness of whatever tight spot they were in was directly proportional to the speed of McKay's ability to think a way out of it.
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The office was different. That was the first thing Dick noticed. Not that he’d spent enough time in the Oval Office for it to feel like home. The sunburst rug was the same, and so were the paired cream colored couches, but the heavy draperies that had covered the windows were gone. The Remington bronzes of cowboys on pitching horses had been replaced by white china containers with subdued ivy topiaries. And the desk was different. It was a mess.
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Whereas I like to worry early and avoid the rush,” O’Neill said.
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