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“What good is genius without humility? What value does it have if it isn’t married undivorceable to kindness and empathy?”
― Dean Koontz, The House at the End of the World

“Sadie wondered, not for the first time, if Jessica had screamed.”
― Rylie Dark, Only Murder

“The plan is, by a combination of fighting, bargaining, and well-timed strokes of treachery, to acquire a ring of bases completely encircling one or other of the rival states, and then to sign a pact of friendship with that rival and remain  on peaceful terms for so many years as to lull suspicion to sleep.”
― George Orwell, 1984 & Animal Farm

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.”
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