“ I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. ”
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“ Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. ”
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“ Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. ”
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“ The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. ”
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“ I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement. ”
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“ If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? ”
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“ Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. ”
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“ If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? ”
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“ Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. ”
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“ You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. ”
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“ The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. ”
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“ Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard. ”
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“ I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement. ”
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“ If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? ”
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“ Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. ”
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“ There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. ”
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“ War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. ”
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“ Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. ”
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“ Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission ”
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“ [Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall. ”
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“ Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods." "Do you?" "I believe they are not here, yes. It's a faith of sorts. ”
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“ Trust in the gods, They will supply? Hardly. He wondered suddenly if it was as hard for the gods to have faith in Ingrey as it was for him to have faith in Them, and a weird wild urge to show Them how it should be done swept him for a moment. ”
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