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What devious designs freedom requires. One must worry about the strength of a principle when it must compromise itself so often to survive.

— Pierce Brown Dark Age (2019)

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Only humanity could grasp the stars and then let them slip through its fingers for the pettiness in its heart.

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Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem.

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If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose.

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"Lies are rust on iron. A blemish on power."

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Permanence of fame, power, dominion of the individual, are illusions. All that will be measured, all that will last, is your mastery of yourself.

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