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“Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together.”
― Karen Traviss

“I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.”
― Karen Traviss

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“he rather liked people. It was a major failing in a demon. Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“What are we going to do now?” “Try and get some sleep.” “You don’t need sleep. I don’t need sleep. Evil never sleeps, and Virtue is ever-vigilant.” “Evil in general, maybe. This specific part of it has got into the habit of getting its head down occasionally.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Silence would have been a terrible din compared to the sudden soft implosion of noiselessness that hit the wizards with the force of an exploding dandelion clock.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

“In short, he was the sort of man who could use the word “personnel” and mean it.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

“she was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“The lodgings were on the top floor next to the well-guarded premises of a respectable dealer in stolen property because, as Granny had heard, good fences make good neighbors.”
― Terry Pratchett

“She had begun petting the Kauraanian kitten, and it purred like it wanted to be a starship engine when it grew up.”
― Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

“Can we hug you?” Maro let go of Tapan and faced me. “Uh.” I didn’t step back, but it must have been obvious the answer was no. Maro nodded. “Okay. This is for you.” She wrapped her arms around herself and squeezed.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“It’s almost impossible to learn what we aren’t aware that we don’t know.”
― E.J. Lowell, Salt

“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“How dare you say something so hurtful and yet so accurate.”
― Will Wight, Reaper

“Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them. They become politicians.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Evolutionary Void

“Utopia is boring; ennui is our true enemy.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Evolutionary Void

“the Spanish coat of arms—a crest flanked by the Pillars of Hercules and the ancient motto PLUS ULTRA, meaning “further beyond.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. —SAVIELLY TARTAKOWER, Polish Grandmaster”
― Katherine Neville, The Fire

“Contract nurses used to find work through regional nurse staffing agencies. There were several of these competing in each market. However, with the rise of app-based “Uber for nursing” digital hiring tools, the regional staffing agencies have given way to a cartel of four nurse-hiring apps: CareRev, Clipboard Health, ShiftKey, and ShiftMed. In Wells and Spilda’s report, they describe how these apps buy nurses’ credit history from data brokers before offering them a shift, and then reduce the wage on offer for nurses with a lot of credit-card debt. Those nurses, after all, are more economically desperate and thus likely to accept a lower wage.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late