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I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty.

— Terry Hayes I Am Pilgrim (2013)

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The effectiveness of any operation is in inverse proportion to the number of people used.

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I’ve always been pretty much on the outside of any side you can find.

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Despite its huge wealth, vast oil reserves, and love of high-tech American ornaments, nothing really works in Saudi Arabia.

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Crime intelligence reports from any police force in Europe would tell you that half of Albania was involved in the murder-for-hire business.

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We’ve got one huge advantage—people believe what they see in databases. They’ve never learned the most important rule of cyberspace—computers don’t lie but liars can compute.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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