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“It is the horror of war that, with each newly arrived generation, the nightmare is reprised by innocents.” quote by Steven Erikson — Download Open image

““It is the horror of war that, with each newly arrived generation, the nightmare is reprised by innocents.””

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The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.' - Traveller

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