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Riordan surveyed the scene again. Knowing that it could not be other than perfect made it seem less remarkable, much in the way a constructed vista in a theme park could never quite compare with a less perfect one discovered in nature. This was merely a technological achievement, and the price of its perpetual perfection was its inability to inspire a sense of grandeur.

— Charles E. Gannon Marque of Caine (2019)

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Sometimes, thinking just didn’t do any good, didn’t provide any answers. Because for some questions—such as the arbitrariness of life and death during wartime—there weren’t any answers.

Trial by Fire (2014)

That’s one thing I’ve noticed about war, Richard: there’s always more than enough irony to go around.

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Human, do you derive some strange pleasure by using different words to reiterate the same misperceptions?

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Beings that can laugh at themselves, particularly their own foibles, stand the greatest chance of attaining wisdom.

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After all, an agent on the inside of a rival organization was always worth more, operationally speaking, than a loyal servitor in one’s own.

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