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A sister is someone you fight with and fight for. Tooth and nail.

Plutarch seems happy, saying he’s going to be able to edit the clips together into some fine propos.He sighs when he mentions the tools that were abolished and incapacitated in the past, ones deemed fated to destroy humanity because of their ability to replicate any scenario using any person.“And in mere seconds!” He snaps his fingers to emphasize their speed. “I guess it was the right thing to do, given our natures”

if you can get people to laugh at someone, it makes them look weak

Incompetence. You can’t ignore it, or it spreads.

«All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. I don’t think this matters so long as one knows what one is doing, and why.»
George Orwell

«A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.»
William Blake

When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.»
David Hume

«Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
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«That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.»
David Hume