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“For the past 150 years, industrial civilization has been dining on the energy stored in fossil fuels, and the bill has come due. Yet, we have sat around the dinner table denying that it is our bill, and doubting the credibility of the man who delivered it.”
― Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

“All scientific work is incomplete—whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, to postpone action that it appears to demand at a given time. Who knows, asks Robert Browning, but the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on the 8:30 next day.9”
― Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

“After all, fire and blood and death were nothing to a country led by a dragon.”
― Kiersten White, Bright We Burn

“Lada nodded. But here, in this sweltering cell, far from her people and her land, she did not feel like a dragon. For the first time in a long time, she felt like a girl. It terrified her. Because there was nothing in the world more vulnerable to be than a girl.”
― Kiersten White, Bright We Burn

“I’m a good man,’ Slim says. ‘But I’m a bad man too. And that’s like all men, kid. We all got a bit o’ good and a bit o’ bad in us. The tricky part is learnin’ how to be good all the time and bad none of the time. Some of us get that right. Most of us don’t.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“The downside is life is short and has to end. The upside is it comes with bread, wine and books.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“Misfortune knew how to use our egos and our pride against us to lure us into vulnerable and defenceless positions.”
― Christian Cantrell

“True imprisonment, Arik now realized, was not the inability to move about or go where one wished; it was the realization, acknowledgement, and ultimately the acceptance of that inability. Imprisonment was more powerful as an idea than it was a physical condition. He thought about how many people who considered themselves free were simply oblivious to their restraints.”
― Christian Cantrell, Containment

“Arik believed that one of the most fundamental laws of human psychology was that force caused resistance. Make people feel trapped, and they will never stop attempting to escape. But obscure the trap well enough, and it was possible to stop the idea of escape from even forming in your prisoners' minds.”
― Christian Cantrell, Containment

“Most events people referred to as tragedies happened suddenly and spectacularly: earthquakes shaking entire cities to the ground, spacecrafts breaking up in the heat of reentry, nuclear reactors melting down during routine tests. These were the things we worried about, guarded against, spent countless hours training for. But Arik was realizing now that disaster could be dissembled into small unidentifiable components and smuggled past even our best defences. It could be allowed to accumulate right in front of us without tripping an alarm or registering on a sensor. Misfortune knew how to use our egos and our pride against us to lure us into vulnerable and defenceless positions. The more obstacles you placed in death's path, the more it was compelled to slip in through the cracks.”
― Christian Cantrell, Containment

“Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Listen sharp, think deep, and guard your tongue- Tam al'Thor”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“And the quickest to harm a stranger are the soonest to think a stranger will harm them.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“But hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“If you boys... you men can do what has to be done when you'd rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“When you have a wolf by the ears, it’s as hard to let go as to hold on.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Fear will kill you if you don't control it.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“She wouldn't wish love on anyone. It was the guest you welcomed and then couldn't be rid of.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Inej had once offered to teach him how to fall. "The trick is not getting knocked down," he'd told her with a laugh. "No, Kaz," she'd said, "the trick is in getting back up.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Do you have a different name for killing when you wear a uniform to do it?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Facts are for the unimaginative.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows