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"Everything took on the color of blood."
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"People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it."
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"It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks."
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"I give her my best smile. Before the alien Armageddon happened, I was known for my smile. Not bragging too much, but I had to be careful never to smile while I drove. It had the capacity to blind oncoming traffic. But it has absolutely no effect on Ringer. She doesn't squint in its overwhelming luminescence. She doesn't even blink."
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"The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough."
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"Most people spend less time outside than prisoners."
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"The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see."
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"I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too."
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"Snap your fingerstop the world - rain falls harder."
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"His eyes said what I cannot see."
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"Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year."
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"Connection" was the cement of the governing class."
Society
"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."
Leadership
"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
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"He believed that rank without power was a sham."
Authority
"A historian cannot pick and choose his facts, he must deal with all the evidence."
History
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."
History
"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
Thought
"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
War
"His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction."
Love
"Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway."
History
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