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Richard, we have fallen into the common trap of seeing ourselves at the center of the universe: all that goes on around us somehow has us as its subject and raison d’etre. But in reality, all the events, all the plans, all the acts we interpret as intentionally malign—or benign—to us may, in fact, have almost nothing to do with our species.

— 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.

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That’s one thing I’ve noticed about war, Richard: there’s always more than enough irony to go around.

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

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

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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.

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