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Bitterblue (Graceling Realm, #3)

by Kristin Cashore

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Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

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Matthew’s Quotes

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

tags: corruption, government, ideology, magnetism, mythology, politics, power, religion, science-fiction

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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

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“Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

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