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Jared, allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people.

— John Scalzi The Ghost Brigades (2006)

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Some people are just no good at not being in charge.

The Last Colony (2007)

You don’t win by getting through all your life not having done anything.

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When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.

The Ghost Brigades (2006)

“It’s Charlie’s soul,” he repeated. “Or more accurately, it’s a holographic representation of the dynamic electrical system that embodies the consciousness of Charles Boutin.”

The Ghost Brigades (2006)

Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

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Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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