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“the next US presidential election is not going to be for the American voters to decide between the Republican and Democrat nominees but a choice between dependence on China or American independence?”
― J.C. Ryan, The Shanghai Strain

“But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions, which is just as well, or it wouldn’t be much of a career path, would it?”
― Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth

“Why do I deserve life when so many others fell?”
― Daniel Arenson, Earthrise - Super Box Set (Book 1-6): An Epic Sci-Fi Adventure

“There are no true winners in war. There is no victory without sacrifice. There is no peace without spilling blood to earn it.”
― Daniel Arenson, Earthrise - Super Box Set (Book 1-6): An Epic Sci-Fi Adventure

“There is never peace for veterans. We fought for another generation. We fought so that the children born after this war can grow up in peace, in joy.”
― Daniel Arenson, Earthrise - Super Box Set (Book 1-6): An Epic Sci-Fi Adventure

“May our lives be filled with laughter and love. May we all know nothing but peace.”
― Daniel Arenson, Earth Eternal

“Faith comes from your gut, Chancellor. You can’t think yourself to it, and it’s not like it comes from your heart. The heart is the human realm of romanticism and hope and idealism, and it is easily broken. The gut is not. Your gut doesn’t bend or”
― Will Entrekin, The Prodigal Hour: A Time Travel Novel

“He had never anticipated getting into a shootout with a dog and baby under his protection, but the apocalypse was an unpredictable place.”
― E.E. Isherwood, Bold Action

“True freedom comes not in following the dictates or avoiding them. It comes with a change of heart that leaves us”
― Kallen Samuels, Leavening

“History is littered with examples of people doing all kinds of devious and dastardly things for money. People will lie for it. People will steal for it. Worst of all, people will kill for it.”
― Craig A. Falconer, The Earthburst Saga (Sci-Fi Box Set, Complete Books 1-6)

“When Hall read the minds of younger generations, these often proved to be the most alarming of all. Many of their thoughts were increasingly scattered, selfish, judgmental, and inflexible. They tended to see everyone as being either a victim or an oppressor. Many seemed to have an insatiable, repulsive need for social acceptance at all costs. These generations had become more and more narcissistic, neurotic, lazy, and confused, and dependence on the web had turned their minds into lightning rods for brainwashers.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unleashed

“Eventually, social democracies all arrive at the same tipping point: where half the country depends on the other half.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

“Government becomes a pricey, clumsy, inefficient mechanism for transferring wealth from people who do something to people who don’t, and from the young to the old—which is the wrong direction. All that effort, and you’ve only managed a new unfairness.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

“Despite their hunger and what they had endured, the civilians were eager to thank the soldiers for liberating them. They hugged them, kissed them, and cried with them. The medics started checking up on them as they passed out food and water.”
― James Rosone, Falling Empires

“Father Jean smiled. “And that’s why faith is such a powerful force. Faith ignores the odds.”
― David S. Brody, Thief on the Cross: Templar Secrets in America