Eric Van Lustbader Quotes
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Survival is not enough.
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They will act in the name of a God they cannot hear, a God from whom they are more and more distant, and the result will be war, massacre, genocide, torture. In other words, the four faces of evil.
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I care about this woman deeply. I care what she thinks and what she does. I care what happened to her and what will happen to her. I want to keep her safe.
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Keep your friends close, Sun-Tzu had written. Your enemies closer.
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Because knowing where we come from allows us to know who we are. Our past is part of us. We can't outrun our past, no matter how hard we try.
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A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.
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History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
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Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.
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Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.
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Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital.