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Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violence. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.
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Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.
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Your friend would control nature," said the Tree, rustling through each syllable one by one. "A witch must serve nature.
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The paper about gravity tunneling
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“At last Mouth said, “Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violent. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.
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Knowledge is justice
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Magic was always bound to claim her in the end, in retrospect, but love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.
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The secret to a successful webcomic is to trick people into believing they will only get all the jokes if they read regularly. By the time they realize there are no jokes for them to get, they’ve invested too much time to quit, and they can’t admit they’ve been duped,” said Kevin. “There is a whole art to creating nonexistent jokes that appear to go over everyone’s head. It’s much harder than creating actual jokes.
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His heart skidded like a dirt bike on black ice as he watched her disappear.
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“It’s okay,” Patricia told the bird. “I’ve got you. It’s okay.
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The trap that can be ignored is no trap.
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When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.
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Maybe you don’t get to choose how you make peace, or what kind of peace you make. You count yourself lucky if peace doesn’t run away from you.
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As far as we know, we’re the only intelligent, technological civilization ever to develop, in the entire universe. There’s complex life all over the place, but we’re still basically unique. We have a fucking duty to preserve that. At all costs.” Laurence”
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