The real measure of information is not in the symbols we send—it’s in the symbols we could have sent, but did not.
“The only good cage is an empty cage.”
― The Elephant Whisperer
― The Elephant Whisperer
“A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.”
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“A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.”
― Dune
― Dune
“When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.”
― Shift
― Shift
“He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.”
― Wool Omnibus
― Wool Omnibus
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