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The term was used in the sense of the “Third Estate” during the French Revolution, the revolutionary common people who would overthrow the First and Second Estates of the monarchy and the clergy. “Third” did not mean third-rate, but
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“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
― Dune
― Dune
“You must not obey a majority, no matter how large, if it opposes your principles and opinions.' He said this to each new volunteer and repeated it over and over to him, until it was engraved on his mind. 'The largest majority is often only an organized mob whose noise can no more change the false into the true than it can change black into white or night into day. And a minority, conscious of its rights, if those rights are based on moral principles, will sooner or later become a just majority.”
― Cloudsplitter
― Cloudsplitter
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