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#1

“Also: Never buy cheap socks. Dance when you can. You’ll know when you’re in love. If you have to check, you’re not.”
― Exurb1a, Geometry for Ocelots

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#2

“My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a few weeks. The street of that port is about a mile and a half long. It has the slaughterhouse at one end and the graveyard at the other. The chief distraction is to walk from the slaughterhouse to the graveyard. For a change one may walk from the graveyard to the slaughterhouse.”
― Ernest Shackleton

tags: entertainment, falkland-islands, port-stanley, travel

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#3

“Pink (AQ=86)
Pink comes after Red.”
― Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

tags: colors, dictionary, numerology, philosophy

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#4

“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

tags: live, war

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#5

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

tags: war-mongering

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#6

“If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: 'To fight against Fascism,' and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: 'Common decency.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

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#7

“For some reason, all the best matadors were Fascists.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

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#8

“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

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#9

“Brilliant accidents on the way to oblivion”
― Exurb1a

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#10

“In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

tags: doldrums-of-war, spanish-civil-war, trench-warfare, war

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#11

“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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#12

“A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

tags: perspective, revolution, socialism, war

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#13

“Hope clouds observation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

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#14

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

tags: paradox

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#15

“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan

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#16

“Philosophically, Communism and Anarchism are poles apart. Practically—i.e. in the form of society aimed at—the difference is mainly one of emphasis, but it is quite irreconcilable. The Communist’s emphasis is always on centralism and efficiency, the Anarchist’s on liberty and equality.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

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#17

“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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#18

“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: politics

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#19

“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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#20

“What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: battle-training, fighting, gurney-halleck, practice, preparation, training, warrior-training

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#21

“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”
― Rudyard Kipling

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#22

“Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.”
― Frank Herbert

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#23

“Happy people are just people you aren't acquainted enough with yet to know how miserable they really are.”
― Exurb1a, The Prince of Milk

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#24

“Don't be so foolish to believe empires are built on stone. They're on bamboo stilts at best.”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

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#25

“No one is guaranteed happiness. It's not a human right. It's a house you have to build yourself. Your family and friends can help, but they're all busy building their own houses too. You're just bitter because you built a shit house.”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

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#26

“What a lovely thing utopia is when you were too young to remember the horror that came with it.”
― Exurb1a, Logic Beach: Part I

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#27

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they’ll never sit in.”
― Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

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#28

“Is there a more opulent society imaginable than one that builds spaceships while its population starves?”
― Exurb1a, Geometry for Ocelots

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#29

“Save a drowning fool and he'll only be back in the river the next day. And what then?” The boy lowers his voice to its true pitch; deep and echoing all of a sudden. “Leave him to drown and you're no better than a murderer.”
― Exurb1a, The Prince of Milk

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#30

“If I asked you in the midst of a tragedy, “Shall I end your suffering and make all well again?” you would answer, “Please do, I beg it.” If instead I asked you after the tragedy, “Are you glad you lived through it? Did you grow wiser from the experience?” you would answer, “Yes! Thank you for not stopping the thing prematurely.” Humans are not to be trusted.”
― Exurb1a, Geometry for Ocelots

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