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“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.”             —Gore Vidal”
― Douglas E. Richards, BrainWeb

“What He really hates is the shit that gets carried out in his name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism —Rufus, Dogma; View Askew Productions, 1999”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Final Winter

“Uru”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Enigma Cube

“It was a trick the brain played. The eye really saw clearly, in detail, only an area about the size of a quarter held at arm’s length. The brain painted in the rest of the image to give us the impression we saw everything around us, but we didn’t, not really.”
― Matthew Mather, The Dreaming Tree

“You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn’t believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Giving is like breathing,” the padre says. “You cannot get more without letting go of what you have.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Laughter wasn’t just a medicine for melancholy, but also a sword raised against evil. A laugh said, You can’t scare me into surrender, I’ll fight you hard to the end.”
― Dean Koontz, Elsewhere

“As the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer had famously expressed, “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Immortality Code

“Those without a conscience, without a soul, had a huge advantage over those burdened by ethics, self-doubt, and decency, as they were capable of epic displays of betrayal and duplicity, without fear, guilt, or remorse ever entering the picture.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Immortality Code

“bloody yolk”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“Free will and freedom itself require the problem of evil. People who are truly grown up, not just in years but also in their minds and hearts, understand that freedom can’t exist without the choice between right and wrong. To be free, we accept the problem of evil—and then resist it.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“Maybe even nuked me from orbit because it was the only way to be sure. My”
― Robert J. Crane, Badder

“I want to believe in a system that keeps anyone from being that grand judge.”
― Robert J. Crane, Cold

“But I also knew that those assholes were vanishingly few.”
― Robert J. Crane, Second Guess

“In ancient sands, his journey ends Where pharaohs reign and fate ascends A traveler, long entombed A clue to secrets and fate resumed “Inscribed on walls, a story lies”
― James D. Prescott, The Fifth Kind: Arrival

“The worst people on earth are the ones who need to take from others to succeed. They are parasites, and the world is filled with them. Love your sister, try to help her, avoid the parasites, and be who you are.”
― A.G. Riddle, Antarctica Station

“Project Nemesis TV series.”
― Jeremy Robinson, The Lost Tribe

“once someone has committed to doing evil, they see it through, even when their feelings about it change. The shame of admitting wrong often overwhelms what a person knows is right. It seems to be a universal truth.”
― Jeremy Robinson, The Lost Tribe

“Surprised?” He slowly nodded. “Don’t be,” she said as her eyes suddenly hardened.  “I’m a humanitarian, not a pacifist.” 10 As a dazed Langford gazed out over the brightly colored grass, Alison Shaw was gazing over an endless sea of bright blue water, sitting on the edge of the Pathfinder’s”
― Michael C. Grumley, Echo

“And all the while, if you stood outside on the lawn of your house, it was quiet. A disaster unfolding peacefully, but I had an uneasy feeling the serenity wouldn’t last much longer.”
― Matthew Mather, CyberSpace

“Because in your political system, neither brilliance, nor even basic competence, seem to be prerequisites for getting elected to an office. Instead, the skills required seem to be popularity, and an ability to lie shamelessly with every breath, make false promises, and trash your opponents.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Portals

“an honorable man expects others to be just as honorable as he is. A corrupt man expects others to be just as corrupt.”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Rift