Jon Willistein
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“Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“There are no bad herbs or bad men; there are only bad cultivators.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“If you give me a gift, it’d be insulting to pay you, because I’d be denying you the gift of giving. So my gift to you is to accept your gift, thereby allowing you to enjoy the gift of giving.”
― $3.33
― $3.33
“Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
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