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“Would anyone, even low-breeds, be so ingenuous to believe such a tale?”
“Remarkably, yes. Their power to believe what they wish, if not given incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, is rather astonishing.”

— Charles E. Gannon Caine's Mutiny (2017)

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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.

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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.

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