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“Time does not count itself. You have only to look at a circle and this is apparent. —Leto II (The Tyrant)”
― Chapterhouse: Dune
― Chapterhouse: Dune
“China remained a poor country, with a per capita gross domestic product of only $175 in 1978. Industrial and agricultural shortfalls were severe; in 1975, for example, actual steel output fell 36 percent short of the planned target, and grain was 9 percent below the planned target.19 Chinese economists reported scenes of stark indigence: “I remember going to a village where they had only one blanket for the whole family, and only one bowl,” a researcher recalled.20 Visiting the developed world brought more bad news.”
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― Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
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― God Emperor of Dune
“I asked you how the Germans could send Jewish children to die in the gas chambers. How, I asked, could they live with themselves after that? Was there really no judgement passed on them by man or God? And you said: Only one judgement is passed on the executioner – he ceases to be a human being. Through looking on his victim as less than human, he becomes his own executioner; he executes the human being inside himself. But the victim – no matter what the executioner does to kill him – remains a human being forever. Remember now?”
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― Everything Flows
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― Chapterhouse: Dune
― Chapterhouse: Dune
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