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“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War