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And part of being a leader—the most important part, as far as he was concerned—was doing what was right, not just what was best.

War is the very definition of ends justifying means, Tal’kamar—on both sides.

Sometimes those who believed in something strongly enough were the most dangerous, too.

In some ways we are slaves to our memories. What you remember will change you. The knowledge you gain will change you. Understanding what is at stake will change you, change how easy it is for you to be the man you aspire to be.

Everyone has a darker nature, Caeden. Everyone. Good men fear it, and evil men embrace it. Good men are still tempted to do the wrong thing, but they resist those urges. As you did.

Every man who holds a sword in his hand, holds murder in his heart.

All that I wanted, I received
All that I dreamed, I achieved
All that I feared, I conquered
All that I hated, I destroyed
All that I loved, I saved
And so I lay down my head, weary with despair
For all that I needed, I lost.

If this was a contest of wills, then I had already lost.

The way I see it, you mostly stop loving a person the same way you stop respecting them.

The truth is that I’ve never loved science. Loving science would be like loving my own fingernails, or my lungs, or my lymph.

The scientific community would forget that I had ever been a luminary of the industry, a pioneer, a genius. They would instead remember me as the woman whose husband had used her own research to make a better version of her.

The liberals, who thought hyper-nationalism was a problem, perhaps didn't realize that their hyper-activism and hyper-liberalism was actually the problem.

Twitter was liberal then, it is woke now.

But the basic premise remains unchanged - what you think is responsible, what you think is the greater cause, what you think is good for the society or what you think is evil, all of these are dependent on your ideological beliefs.

The Left knows how to appear cool, even compassionate, while planning to burn down the world. 😂

Anyone who does not toe the leftist line has to face unbearable hostility. It is almost like being punished for blasphemy, and well, the Left indeed mirrors the Abrahamic faith system in many ways.

"Wars are won by information, General," Yuu repeated. "It is only what they want us to do if we don't know they want us to do it."

The first step toward winning is knowing which game you are playing.

"Mistakes are like wrinkles," Natsuko said as she snapped together the last few pieces of the game and put them away in her pouch. "The older we get, the more we have, and we forget them until we look in a mirror."

These monks were not the kind to be beaten into submission, but rather the kind that did the beating and really didn't care whether you submitted or not. After which they probably looted the broken bodies and pushed what was left down the mountain with a hearty May the stars shine favourably upon your mangled corpse.

Then again, her grandmother always said there was no such thing as good fortune, only the propitious mistakes of others.

"I don't carry any weapons," she said as she fished out two lien. "Unless you count my charm."
Judging by the stony silence, they did not. 😂

Hope was such a dangerous thing, requiring only a single thread for a person to hang themselves with.

"Wars are not won by heroics," Yuu said, reaching for one of her Monks. "They are won by sacrifice. Every war has a cost, and it is paid in blood."

Some mistakes... just have greater consequences than others.

There seems to be something miraculous about seeing the relentless optimism of new growth after the bleakness of winter, a kind of joy in the difference every year, the way nature chooses to show off different parts of the garden to its full advantage.

Swordsmen are worse than fishwives for gossip. 😂

Never tell a friend what you would conceal from an enemy.

He closed his eyes searching for calm. It wasn't there. Calm was gone. Calm had packed his bags and skunk off to hide somewhere safe. 😂

Honesty, he found, rarely improved a good tale.