Some Desperate Glory
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Since language and identity are closely intertwined in human culture, a society seeking to eradicate individual cultural identities and histories in favor of a fictitious pan-Terran “cause” must begin by robbing its people of their languages.
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How stupid to assume that anything has rules, when nothing in the universe has ever been fair.
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A peace brought about with the threat of violence is only a war in waiting.
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What a waste it was, what a terrible waste, to take a person who dreamed cities and gardens and enormous shining skies and teach him that the only answer to an unanswerable suffering was slaughter.