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“Caine has a serious flaw when it comes to working for the government.”
“Which is?”
“Well, he has this real bad habit of telling the truth.”

— Charles E. Gannon Trial by Fire (2014)

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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.

Caine's Mutiny (2017)

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

Marque of Caine (2019)

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

Trial by Fire (2014)

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.

Caine's Mutiny (2017)

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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