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  "text": "He rather liked people. It was a major failing in a demon.\n\nOh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.",
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      "text": "\"But you can't just leave it at that!\" said Anathema, pushing forward. \"Think of all things you could do! Good things!\"\n\n\"Like what?\" said Adam suspiciously.\n\n\"Well ... you could bring all the whales back, to start with.\"\n\nHe put his head on one side. \"An' that'd stop people killing them, would it?\"\n\nShe hesitated. It would have been nice to say yes.\n\n\"An' if people do start killing 'em, what would you have me do about 'em?\" said Adam. \"No. I reckon I'm getting the hang of this now. Once I start messing around like that, there'd be no stoppin' it. Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale.\"",
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