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  sergeybp8 марта 2015 г.

  Хорошо написано, но главное - сама концепция детей, из которых в определенных условиях можно лепить гениев в какой-то области. Также интересна идея альтернативной цивилизации насекомых.

  Несколько цитат себе на память:
  

  
  

  … stubborn soldiers who held the ridges at Gettysburg, and then, finally, to the disciplined, professional army that ground Lee to dust in Grant's long campaign. It wasn't the soldiers who changed. It was the leader.

  I understood, at levels deeper than speech, how a great military leader imposes his will on his enemy, and makes his own army a willing extension of himself. —Armour, John Steakley

  he couldn't think of any jokes, and none of theirs seemed funny.

  he never laughed when they tried to banter with him, and they soon stopped trying. He was commander.

  If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

  "Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes."

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