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Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear — all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human “heart” are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity’s greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever.

— Max Brooks The Zombie Survival Guide (2003)

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Who knows if this is humanity’s greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever.

The Zombie Survival Guide (2003)

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

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The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls — no matter what their label — these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.

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Point is, that's the image of those in uniform, and it couldn't be further from the truth.

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Well alright, anyone who has dreams of world empire, look what it did to Britain. There's a reason that whole country is one big Smith song.

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