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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Collective madness is called sanity ..”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Just because the tyrant dresses like a clown doesn’t mean he’s funny.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

“Because the hardest thing about sacrifice is not knowing if it’ll be worth it. What’s the point in taking the bullet if the person behind you in the charge loses heart, dithers, runs away? You may as well have stayed at home. You only have one life after all. It can be very hard to know when to throw it away.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

“Human history is full of social conventions designed to salve the consciences of the mighty and curb the ambitions of the small.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

“Every revolutionary group I ever knew spent far longer clutching for how to describe what they were than talking about what they were going to do.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

“The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.”
― Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer