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Austin Steelman

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“It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in't.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

tags: power, quip

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“Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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“Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: human-nature, looters, looting, mercenaries, theft, thieves

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“Adjectives are not arguments.”
― Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD into a Job

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“Of course, I must say that I don't think America is God's gift to anybody--if it is, God's days have got to be numbered. That God these people say they serve--and do serve, in ways that they don't know--has got a very nasty sense of humor. Like you'd beat the shit out of Him, if He was a man. Or: if you were.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

tags: america, god, united-states, us, usa

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