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Yes! Yes! Mighty Prophet! Succor me!

Fwi-Song

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A guilty system recognizes no innocents. As with any power apparatus which thinks everybody’s either for it or against it, we’re against it. You would be too, if you thought about it. The very way you think places you among its enemies. This might not be your fault, because every society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it.

Limiting Factor

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One should never mistake pattern … for meaning.

Ngaroe QiRia

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Military personnel, babe; put themselves in harm’s way when they signed up. Just that the poor fuckers didn’t know it was my harm they were putting themselves in the way of. That’s war, doll; fairness comes excluded.

Demeisen

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Rest is . . . rest is beneficial. Renews the frame, redefines the nerves, resupplies the muscles and allows the mechanical stresses on the greater bodily organs to abate. Yes, that is rest, and crave it we might. Death is not rest, no; death is the end of rest. Death is decay and rotting down, not building up!

Dr Gillews

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Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.

Perosteck Balveda

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What’s natural around here? The nearest “natural” thing to here is ten light minutes away. It’s the fucking sun. And I wouldn’t put it past them to have meddled with that.”

Mahrai Ziller

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Give them every comfort and they start to pine for the rougher life.

DeWar

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Gosh, thanks. That must be why the other ships call me Meatfucker.

Grey Area

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Money implies poverty.

Diziet Sma

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I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives them pleasure. And anyway, people die; stars die; universes die. What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead.

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I take a perverse delight in watching species fuck up.

Ngaroe QiRia

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Strength in depth; redundancy; over-design. You know the Culture’s philosophy.

Sprant Flere-Imsaho Wu-Handrahen Xato Trabiti

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Failure is its own reward.

Querl Xoralundra

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Insult, like many such feelings, is experienced in the soul of the person addressed; it is not something that can be granted or withheld by the person doing the addressing.

Representative Errun

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Lay up that magnifying glass and take up thy drink glass, my friend. Slip off the academic gown and on with the antic pants!

Shoot Them Later

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I am called Cheradenine Zakalwe. You are called dead.

Cheradenine Zakalwe

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