My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There … - Max Barry

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Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

Max Barry

My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.

Brain, Fault, Intelligent, Momentum, Room, Safety

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She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn’t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.

Argument, Bullshit, Convince, Convinced, Mean, People

What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special.

Body, Down, Naked, See, Special

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

Justify, Make, People, Thing, Values

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

Communicate, Done, Language, Poetic

I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two. . . But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.

Absense, Bullshit, Cover, Love You, Two