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1 " However, as there is no end to the beauty that some can create, so there also is no end to the horrors that others "
― Dean Koontz , Red Rain (Nameless: Season One #4)
2 " A few thousand years of weather will eventually reduce a city to its component elements and fields of rubble, though its more restive citizens are likely to get the job done faster. "
3 " Humble goals and modest expectations are more likely to be fulfilled than are utopian dreams. "
4 " Utopias, after all, are sought mostly by great fools, though also by dangerous charlatans, and more death and pain has been brought down on humanity by the pursuit of a perfect world than by all other crime combined. "
5 " A sea of lies can’t wash away a single grain of truth. Truth is what it is. "
6 " In this brave new world, there is no place for a lone paladin venturing forth on tasks of knightly honor. Both Galahad and Shane would be toast. In times as complex as these, any caped crusader must work sans cape, but with backup that amounts to scores of specialists. "
7 " Justice is a human concept, as flawed as any. There is no reliable justice in this world and, given human nature, never can be. Politics, bigotry, envy, ignorance . . . Those forces and others redefine justice day by day, until it means something different to everyone—until it means nothing at all. "
8 " But for you, at least, there will be the truth and its consequences. "
9 " Truth. There is no one truth. Everyone has his own truth. It’s all about point of view. "
10 " You can’t reason with a self-righteous lunatic "
11 " To be fair to himself, perhaps he should accept that some fates are sewn into the fabric of time with tighter stitches than others. "
12 " wash away a single grain of truth. Truth is what it is. "
13 " the violence, the red rain that is the unrelenting evils of the world, is without surcease. "
14 " The twin scalpels of her stare seem to perform exploratory surgery on his mind, his motives. "
15 " more death and pain has been brought down on humanity by the pursuit of a perfect world than by all other crime combined. "
16 " some fates are sewn into the fabric of time with tighter stitches than others. "
17 " There is no reliable justice in this world and, given human nature, never can be. Politics, bigotry, envy, ignorance . . . Those forces and others redefine justice day by day, until it means something different to everyone—until it means nothing at all. "