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The beast has long since stopped serving to become the master. The Confed did what governments were famed for: it made more government. To oppose it was treason, and worth death. Even a monster has fear.

— Steve Perry The Man Who Never Missed (1985)

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The good old days always seemed better in distant memory than they had actually been at the time.

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Causing the union trouble was easy enough, since unions were almost always paranoid by nature.

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Odd how such major changes in a man’s life could come about so quickly, based on such flimsy things as feelings.

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A man can only stay down so long before he rises or loses everything that he is.

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Everybody’s got secrets, and some of the worst ones belong to those with the most power.

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