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    Orson Scott Card
    “If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: hard-work, inaction, just-do-it, success, team
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    Iain M. Banks
    “Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you’re not doing it right.”
    ― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games
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    Thomas Harris
    “Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: death, inspirational, voice
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    Richard Matheson
    “Patience, he told himself. Get yourself at least one virtue, anyway.”
    ― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
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    Iain M. Banks
    “A guilty system recognizes no innocents.”
    ― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games
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    Iain M. Banks
    “Because I do enjoy winning, because I do have something nobody can copy, something nobody else can have; I’m me; I’m one of the best.”
    ― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games
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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
    “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: death, legacy, life, muad-dib, philosophy, truth, wisdom
    895 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “Fear is the mind-killer.”
    ― Frank Herbert , Dune
    tags: 1965, fear, litany, panic, serenity
    386 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Orson Scott Card
    “So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: communication, war
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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    Patrick Süskind
    “People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
    ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    tags: alone, solitude, want
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    Rick Riordan
    “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: inspirational, life, meaning
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    Rick Riordan
    “It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: humanity, humans, mankind, reality
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    Rick Riordan
    “Humans see what they want to see.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: humanity, humans, mankind, perception, self-delusion, willful-ignorance
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    Rick Riordan
    “Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: glory
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    Rick Riordan
    “Suspecting and knowing are not the same.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: knowing, suspecting
    883 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
    358 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
    tags: politics, voting
    110 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
    tags: freedom, pascifism, violence
    59 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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    Stephen King
    “95% of the people who walk the earth are inert, Johnny. 1% are saints, and 1% are assholes. The other 3% do what they say they can do.”
    ― Stephen King, The Dead Zone
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Stupid people are dangerous.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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    Veronica Roth
    “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: dauntless, divergent, fearless, four, tris
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    Veronica Roth
    “Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    Thomas Harris
    “Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
    63 likes



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