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“Zakalwe, in all human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”
― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?”
― Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Tomorrow's Eve

“I wonder, he wondered, if any human has ever felt this way before about an android.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?