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So that was my task as leader. Escape from a situation that was complex, dangerous, and littered with unknowns. Get out of the burning labyrinth without stepping on the buried land mines.

— John C. Wright Fugitives of Chaos (2006)

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Unliving things have no passions, and no memory: mere matter is the amnesia of the universe.

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Everyone loses in war, even the winners.

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Merlin and Solomon can tell you how well the wise and learned can withstand the foolishness of love!

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You have reached that unfortunate age where you have all of life’s answers and you know everything more perfectly and more profoundly than your elders.

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Need I say that, if the universe is destroyed, it is unlikely that the British Isles will be preserved?

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