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"If there was anything the last year had taught her-if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her-it was that perspective was everything. If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story."
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"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."
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"Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources."
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"Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be."
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"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."
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"For it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown."
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"The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life."
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"What you see is what suffices you."
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"If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car."
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"You have to learn to look at things in a new way."
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"Losing your job makes you come face to face with the greatest wealth."
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"You have business and pleasure to attend to. As an expert in both, allow me to advise you to put them aside for the next ten minutes. Why? "Because the world is about to transform, and you will want to be able to say you saw it happen. The axes of our little universe are about to flip, and you'll want to get your magboots set."
Awareness
"He made sure his tone remained casual. He was trying to keep his son unaware of the encroaching alien invasion for as long as he could, be it another day or another hour. Once innocence was lost it was never regained.So he took his son fishing and strolled along the river and pretended as though the galaxy wasn't on fire."
Parenting
"God, she was beautiful. Hair a tangled mess, clothes torn, lips pale and swollen, skin streaked in dirt. And she was so damn beautiful and flawed and perfect."
Beauty
"Laches faded away, leaving Miriam standing facing Hyperion, the Metigen who had orchestrated the slaughter of over fifty million people a short year ago.There were limits to even deals with the devil, lines which should never be crossed but she was beginning to wonder when she might find one."
Ethics
"Mia stood between the bed and the broken window, holding an active plasma blade at waist-height in front of her. A thick coat of blood stained the plasma nearly from hilt to tip, hissing as it dribbled from blade to floor."Are you all right?Mia gave her a wan, distant smile. "It's okay. I've done it before."
Conflict
"I believe my judgment has never been clearer. I have seen firsthand their potential, their strength of will, in a way you have not."You have loosed a chaotic, unstable variable into the Mosaic. They will destroy everything."It is a risk. They also may save everything."
Decision
"If her daughter's ship had been disintegrated in space there would never be evidence of it, never an answer to what had happened to her.If she stopped to ponder the implications she might break. And Admiral Miriam Solovy did not break."
Resilience
"He was terrified he was making the wrong choice. He relied on his instincts in his work but now he didn't dare trust them. The wound of betrayal still burned raw in his chest and another cut might be the killing blow.But it was the end of the world and there may be no more second chances."
Choice
"From up here, the city below looked calm. Peaceful. Serene.It was a lie. Mia could feel the lie in her bones, in the foreboding creeping along the fine hairs on her skin. But mostly she could feel it in her head, where preparations were underway across Romane to meet the coming chaos."
Awareness
"Caleb shoved back from the table and stood to retreat to the kitchen. "No. Find another plan."There is no other plan. This isn't even a plan, merely a nugget of an idea for the start of a plan that's certain to fail and end in your deaths."
Strategy
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