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    Pierce Brown
    “I am Cassius Bellona, son of Tiberius, son of Julia, brother of Darrow, Morning Knight of the Solar Republic, and my honor remains.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer
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    Pierce Brown
    “I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.'
    'I live for you,' I say sadly.
    She kisses my cheek. 'Then you must live for more.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
    tags: cover-quote, darrow, eo, red-rising
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    Pierce Brown
    “Tradition is the crown of the tyrant.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Golden Son
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Pierce Brown
    “He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Golden Son
    tags: introvert, introverts, readers, reading, red-rising
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    Pierce Brown
    “Omnis vir lupus.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Golden Son
    tags: darrow, howlers, red-rising, red-rising-trilogy, sci-fi, science-fiction, sevro
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    Pierce Brown
    “The Gray soldiers prowl the cities ensuring order, ensuring obedience to the hierarchy. The Whites arbitrate their justice and push their philosophy. Pinks pleasure and serve in highColor homes. Silvers count and manipulate currency and logistics. Yellows study the medicines and sciences. Greens develop technology. Blues navigate the stars. Coppers run the beauracracy. Every Color has a purpose. Every Color props up the Golds.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
    tags: color, colors, hierarchy, pierce-brown, red-rising
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    Pierce Brown
    “Hope is an opiate, not a plan.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Dark Age
    tags: dark-age, hope, pierce-brown, red-rising
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  • #9
    Pierce Brown
    “Matter, how tiny my share.
    Time, how brief my allotment.
    Fate, how small my roll to play.
    Self, All that can be mastered.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Dark Age
    tags: dark-age, fate, mastery, matter, pierce-brown, red-rising, self, time
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  • #10
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    George R.R. Martin
    “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: friendship, loneliness
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
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    Frank Herbert
    “Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: belief, kindlehighlight, knowledge, manipulation, propoganda, truth
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    Frank Herbert
    “If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.”
    ― Frank Herbert, The Dune Storybook
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    Madeline Miller
    “He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: mythology, war
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: war
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    R.F. Kuang
    “War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
    tags: war
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  • #21
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “In times of war, the law falls silent.

    Silent enim leges inter arma”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war
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  • #22
    Sun Tzu
    “To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
    ― Sun Tzu
    tags: enemy, sun-tzu, war
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    Frank Herbert
    “Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: bravery, civilisation, cowardice, law
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    Frank Herbert
    “Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: corruption, power
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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    Philip Reeve
    “You know, sometimes a thing, a system, a creation grows so old, and corrupt, and weighed down by its own baggage, that all you can do is change it. Move on. Start afresh. It's frightening, but it has to be done.”
    ― Philip Reeve, Railhead
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    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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  • #29
    Douglas Adams
    “First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: computer, science, technology
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  • #30
    Douglas Adams
    “Life is wasted on the living.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: inspirational
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