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"Do not depreciate a creation of God."
"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."
"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."
"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."
"The sweetest apples are eaten first."
"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."
"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
"What has more value in this world? That which is in shortage."
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"Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous."
"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."
"She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman."
"Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful."
"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."
"The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning."
"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."
"Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners."
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