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It is the fantasy of those who rule that nothing will change.
“It is entropy, not energy, that keeps stones on the ground and the world turning.”
― The Order of Time
― The Order of Time
“But, whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Oedipus Rex
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Oedipus Rex
“Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.”
― Defiance
― Defiance
“Hamlet misspoke, Strawl decided. It is consciousness that makes cowards of us all, not conscience. Right and wrong are venomless when compared to the simple awareness of being alive. The knowledge that existence can equal something past the sum of our circulation and digestion, that those corporeal purposes serve a galaxy of space between a man's ears, whose suns and planets obey his own peculiar science, but one in which he alone recognizes the order, and only in glimpses, epiphanies that melt before he can speak or even think them--and the knowledge even this distant self is not his possession but belongs to others weighing and judging the dim and distant light he emits.”
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