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“If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.”
― Mistborn: The Final Empire
― Mistborn: The Final Empire
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by our multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism.”
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
“We cannot see the universe. We are in the darkness of a trench, a deep cut, dark water heavier than earth, presences lit by our own blood, little biolumes, heroic and pathetic Promethei too afraid or weak to steal fire but able still to love. Gods are among us and they care nothing and are nothing like us.
This is how we are brave: we worship them anyway.”
― Kraken
This is how we are brave: we worship them anyway.”
― Kraken
“Few people realize this, but cutting down the trees is one of the things that keeps us Malawians poor.”
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
“I will not try to describe the beauty of life in a Swarm ‒ their zero-gravity globe cities and comet farms and thrust clusters, their micro-orbital forests and migrating rivers and the ten thousand colors and textures of life at Rendezvous Week. Suffice it to say that I believe the Ousters have done what Web humanity has not in the past millennia: evolved.
While we live in our derivative cultures, pale reflections of Old Earth life, the Ousters have explored new dimensions of aesthetics and ethics and biosciences and art and all the things that must change and grow to reflect the human soul.”
― Hyperion
While we live in our derivative cultures, pale reflections of Old Earth life, the Ousters have explored new dimensions of aesthetics and ethics and biosciences and art and all the things that must change and grow to reflect the human soul.”
― Hyperion
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