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“That's a big stick you have up your ass. Try not to scratch the chair.”

- “My parent once said that if there is ever to be peace, we must first talk. I laugh at this now. All either species knows how to do with words is to wound.”

- “…To drool or not to drool, that is the question.”

Great start to The Last Enemy.

“Be prepared to accept all. But test the truth by forcing it to lie; test the lie by forcing it to be true.”

“He asked what the difference is between ignorance and stupidity. And he answered his own question by telling me that ignorance is self-inflicted stupidity.”

“A beating in defense of my understanding of truth is one thing. I am not up to my parent beating me because I was beaten. That seems somehow to be taking the gesture past integrity into foolishness.”

“In the past are the mistakes we made. In the future are the mistakes we will make. In the present are the mistakes we are making. Curse the mistakes, rail at them, regret them, learn from them. But do not wish for the perfection of time when mistakes will no longer be made, for that is what we call death.”