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But, no. It was too late. Fortune’s die was cast. The cruel game had to be played to its end, no matter what anyone wanted.

— Glen Cook Soldiers Live (2000)

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Folks always believe their own racism is the result of divine inspiration, incontestably valid.

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I’ve always known people for whom a goal was everything, who never thought nothing about the consequences of the goal achieved.

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Time is the enemy whose patience can’t be exhausted.

Dreams of Steel (1990)

Never underestimate the power of human ingratitude.

Shadow Games (1989)

To me wine is just so much spoiled fruit juice.

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O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)

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