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Like any good mentor, he’s been there and done that, and he’s brought back a few things to teach us.
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.”
― Going Postal
― Going Postal
“Yes, suddenly I saw it clearly: most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. The task of obtaining redress (by vengeance or by forgiveness) will be taken over by forgetting. No one will redress the wrongs that have been done, but all wrongs will be forgotten.”
― The Joke
― The Joke
“The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.”
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“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
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