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“He'd said to Vimes once, in this very room, standing at this very window: They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

tags: government, humor, morality, philosophy, politics

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“The language lifted up my heart whenever I read it, and as I spoke it, it possessed me, it sang through me. When I ended, I heard for the first time in my life that silence which is the performer's sweetest reward.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts

tags: oral-history, oration, silences-speak-more-than-words, the-value-of-story

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“So the year went on, a dark year, though now each day had that one bright hour at its dawn.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts

tags: dawn, savoring-the-moment, time

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“The glow in the grey sky that was all we could see of the sun began to shift downwards, silvering the sedge and marsh grasses at the sand's rim, and casting faint, shape-changing shadows across the ground we crossed.”
― Emma Darwin, A Secret Alchemy

tags: day-and-night, journeys, sunsets

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“DID YOU EVER TALK to Dr. Hoenikker?” I asked Miss Faust. “Oh, certainly. I talked to him a lot.” “Do any conversations stick in your mind?” “There was one where he bet I couldn’t tell him anything that was absolutely true. So I said to him, ‘God is love.’” “And what did he say?” “He said, ‘What is God? What is love?’” “Um.” “But God really is love, you know,” said Miss Faust, “no matter what Dr. Hoenikker said.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle

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