Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.
Laura Anne Gilman
I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.
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Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.
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Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.
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The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.
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Talent alone is not enough. In the end, Guardian, it is desire that creates a master vintner, makes him into a Vineart. A passion, not for power, or strength, but for the grapes themselves. Anything else leads to ruin.
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The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.
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Any change in routine was terrifying, even if it involved less violence rather than more.
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That is the danger of an idea, Jerzy. Once planted, you cannot control where the roots may go.
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He is not bound so tightly by tradition that he will refuse a good idea simply for it being new, and not so wild that he would take a bad idea simply because it is new.
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