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““Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.””

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Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

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“I saw them all, suddenly, for just a moment, through non-Radchaai eyes, an eddying crowd of unnervingly ambiguously gendered people. I saw all the…

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Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

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“The smallest, most seemingly insignificant event is part of an intricate whole and to understand why one particular mote of dust falls in one…

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