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He's not like anything, Ahn. He's the original.
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If we shouldn't do it, we shouldn't be\xa0able\xa0to do it.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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The facts appear to be mutating every forty minutes. like bacteria.
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Your moral scruples may be admirable, Miles, but I'm not sure I can afford them.
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Mercenaries thrive on other people's chaos.
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The job was interesting for a week, while he was learning it, mind-numbing after that.
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Geography is the mother of strategy.
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There is no moral difference between ordering an execution, and carrying it out.
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I may be small, but I screw up big because I'm standing on the shoulders of GIANTS.
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I don't think I'm destined to die today. I must be being saved for day after tomorrow.
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It could be worse was always an unassailable assertion.
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Beware of wishing for justice. You might get it.
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The arrow of justice flies one way.
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Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.
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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy."\xa0Not when the enemy is me.
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Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.
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You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously.
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Behavior that is rewarded is repeated. And the reverse.
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The best strategies run on rails like that." Miles pointed out. "Live or die, you make your goal."
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Good luck," snorted Ivan."Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it."
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Women. Uterine replicators with legs, as it were.
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The rest of the universe was disappointing at first glance.
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Some places have religion. Here we have safety drills.
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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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As long as I'm going to commit a crime, let it be a perfect one.
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Quinn ignored the admonition with a verve bordering, Ethan thought, on the anti-social.
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Innocence might be bliss, but ignorance was demonstrably hell.
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A fool is twice a fool who tries to conceal it.
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Do not mistake charm for virtue.
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Curiosity is not a theological virtue.
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Change is a function of time and experience, and time is implacable.
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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Some party," commented Bel. "I went to a pet show with an atmosphere like this once."
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Devotion to duty, or pragmatic ruthlessness, which was which? He would never know, now.
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How could I have died and gone to hell without noticing the transition?
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The devil can quote scripture, y'know."Yes, that was rather what I had in mind...
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Is this guy for real?""He thinks he's faking it," said Suegar blandly, "but he's not."
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Let he who is without sin cast the first lure.
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Biology is Destiny.
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Men may move mountains, but ideas move men.
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You don't have any inhibitions at all, do you?""Not in combat."
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I hate an enemy who doesn't make mistakes.
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Between justice and genocide there is, in the long run, no middle ground.
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