"Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp."

Power, Empire, Ambition, Limit

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"Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp."

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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

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"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

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"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

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"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

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"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

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"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

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"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

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"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

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"I'm a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do."

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"It was a mating dance only slightly more dignified than presenting like a mandrill, but endearing in its own fashion."

Romance

"Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn't set policy...."

Wisdom

"It throbbed with an inhuman power, tidal and deep and painful. Look at this too long, Elvi thought, and I will lose my mind in it. She took a step toward it, feeling the structures in the blackness respond to her. She felt as if she could see the spaces between molecules in the air, like atoms themselves had become a thin fog, and for the first time she could see the true shape of reality looming up just beyond her reach."

Science

"Partners, she said, and fired two rounds into his head."

Conflict

"Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?"

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"A near-fatal case of scurvy being the only reason I can imagine drinking something with grapefruit juice in it."

Humor

"All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it was part of seemed to apply everywhere and maybe always."

Evolution

"The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster."

Survival

"Drainage tubes ran out of his belly and side, and there was a catheter the size of a pencil coming out his penis. Nothing particularly hurt, so he had to assume he was on pretty nearly all the narcotics there were."

Recovery