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“Sir, there is not a smidgen of offence taken! Forgiveness is a muscle which grows stronger as we practise it. I should like to be the finest athlete of that sport. A long-distance forgiver!�


“Oh.”
― Eon
― Eon

“Thirteen hundred years, and people are still people," Heineman mused with an edge of bitterness. "Still squabbling." "True, and not entirely true," Olmy said. "In your day, many people were so severely handicapped by personality disorders or faulty thinking structures that they often acted against their own best interests. If they had clearly defined goals, they could not reason or even intuit the clear paths attain to those goals. Often adversaries had the same goals, even very similar belief systems, yet hated each other bitterly. Now, no human has the excuse of ignorance or mental malfunction, or even lack of ability. Incompetence is inexcusable, because it can be remedied.”
― Eon
― Eon

“Whenever people say, ‘I don’t give a fuck,â€� they actually mean, ‘I do give a fuck, but will do my best to pretend otherwise.â€� Nobody uses the work ‘fuckâ€� when they’re feeling apathetic.”
― The Slanted Gutter
― The Slanted Gutter

“In all things, across all avenues, a choice must be made: whether to follow love, truth, or power. That choice will consume the chooser. If he follows only love then his wellbeing will be constantly at the mercy of another, though his highs will be sublime. If he follows truth then it will be a lonely journey, but potentially a noble one. If he should follow power though, not only will he come to know a desperate and revolting loneliness, but he will also never experience even a drop of satisfaction in anything.”
― The Fifth Science
― The Fifth Science

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