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1 " ... primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice - as in the dark knights of the ovens which pocked old earth history - and that current generations had to deny any command for sacrifice. Sol had written that whatever God now took in human consciousness - whether as a mere manifestation of the subconscious in all its revanchist needs or as a more conscious attempt at philosophical and ethical evolution - humankind could no longer agree to offer up sacrifice in God's name. Sacrifice and the agreement to sacrifice had written human history in blood. "
― Dan Simmons , The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
2 " Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability. "
― Miles Anthony Smith , Why Career Advice Sucks™