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My life makes more sense because it is witnessed, by you, even when you don’t approve. It is a privilege to have someone who listens to me.”
“Confidence isn’t about knowing you’re right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right.”
― The Consuming Fire
― The Consuming Fire
“Most others who were thinking ahead at all simply planned to stockpile certain foods. How much? A month, six months, a year, depending on available space and personal pessimism. Most of those thinking about stockpiling still had in their brains the idea that the crisis was likely to be a temporary one, and that somewhere along the way someone would figure out how to keep billions from starving to death in the habitats that would increasingly fall to entropy. To think otherwise would raise the question of why bother to stockpile at all.”
― The Last Emperox
― The Last Emperox
“Sometimes the world’s most brilliant ideas don’t work. Doesn’t make them any less insightful.”
― On the Shoulders of Titans
― On the Shoulders of Titans
“Lies do not in themselves lead to poor outcomes, nor does truth in every circumstance lead to good ones. As with so many things, context matters.”
― The Last Emperox
― The Last Emperox
“That's what war is," Cobb told me. "A bunch of sorry, desperate fools on both sides, just trying to stay alive. That's the part that those stories you love leave out, isn't it? It's always more convenient when you can fight a dragon. Something you don't have to worry you'll start caring about.”
― Starsight
― Starsight
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