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“Hale nodded thoughtfully. “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” Susan looked puzzled. “It’s Latin,” Hale said. “From Satires of Juvenal. It means ‘Who will guard the guards?’” “I don’t get it,” Susan said. “‘Who will guard the guards?’” “Yeah. If we’re the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we’re not dangerous?”
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“Perhaps we could go further and say that our desire to preserve is a form of denial about our own mortality. The fact that art can endure longer than people has led some to seek a form of proxy immortality through it.”
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“How many children go to sleep at night afraid of hell?”
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“I am an Omegan and a polymath. Whatever I set my mind to, I always achieve. The limitations that apply to the rest of humanity, Do not apply to me.”
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“Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
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