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“If you want to break down a body from the outside, you can do it in three ways. One: overwhelm it with something really powerful. Two: weaken its defences by giving it nothing to fight against, like washing all germs away, for a generation. Or three: use a targeted disease that makes the immune system go into overdrive, burn itself into an auto-immune disease and destroy the body itself. The third is sort of what Al-Qaeda tried with 9-11 or what we did with some of the covid lockdowns.”
― Alexander Boldizar, The Man Who Saw Seconds

“But Paris was different. You couldn't just set out on a nice little looting expedition with a pistol in your hand and a sword at your side, just as you pleased, with no danger from the law. He had all the instincts of an N.C.O. let loose in a conquered country.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

“My audience is the future of my nation and my species. Their reaction to death, and the beauty of this bird, will not leave my mind, even as I deliver some standard lecture on genetics for the next forty-fice minutes.”
― John Janovy Jr., Life Lessons from a Parasite: What Tapeworms, Flukes, Lice, and Roundworms Can Teach Us About Humanity’s Most Difficult Problems

“What's a Texas?”
― Makana Yamamoto, Hammajang Luck