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“Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.”
― Ring
― Ring
“Humanity as such, we might say, is a large collective drifting into the future with survival as its shared interest. This law differs from the “laws“ that we have written down, and that have such an inorganic connotation. This law exists hardly to reign in outpourings of human instinct, but rather, is aligned with the incohate impulses toward life esconced in our hearts; it is an unspoken agreement among human beings where there are more than one. In short, this naked law, fundamental to survival,was altered and institutionalized over many thousands of years of history before our laws came to be.”
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“Right. Mutation is the trigger that moves evolution forward. So, how do mutations happen?”
― Spiral
― Spiral
“My life's been defined by my actions. I've shaped my destiny through my battles. I would rather keep chasing after my dreams until I crumble into dust than sit around waiting for fate to show me mercy.”
― Paradise
― Paradise
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