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sensible
It may be the warriors who get all the glory, but it’s the engineers who build societies.
--B’Lanna Torres, Star Trek: Voyager 7x9 “Flesh and Blood”
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When it comes to revenge....
The best revenge is to be unlike he who injured you.
--Marcus Aurelius
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A Word to those in Authority
Those in authority must retain the public’s trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one.
--Abraham Lincoln, as quoted in The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry
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inspiration
Where do you get your fantastic ideas from? You steal them. You steal them from reality. It outstrips fantasy most the time.
--Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard