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21 " Around us, the tourist crowd ebbed and flowed like the multicolored idiot tide it was. "
― Richard K. Morgan , Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)
22 " It's always far easier to murder and tear down than it is to build and educate. Easier to let power accumulate than diffuse. "
23 " It’ll take a stronger kind of human to deal with it, but that’s always been the case, with every major step in knowledge or technology that we take. You can’t get by on past models, you have to keep moving forward, building better minds and bodies. Either that or the universe moves in like a swamp panther and eats you alive. "
24 " Rage at injustice is a forest fire — it jumps all divides,even those between generations. "
25 " I imagine they're pretty much insane by now. Can't be much fun being locked inside the mind of something that alien in the first place, let alone when you're fighting tooth and nail for your life in a mud pit. I doubt there's much conscious human mind left.' Vidaura looked down into her lap. 'Is that what you tell yourself?' 'No, it's just a theory.' I shrugged. 'Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there is some conscious mind left. Maybe there's a lot left. Maybe in their more lucid moments they think they've gone to hell. Either way suits me. "
26 " Skip it. We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be? "
27 " the truth was far more complex, and ultimately far more scary. But who in this universe wants the truth? "
28 " Forty years ago, before I went away, you could get the same phlegmatic responses to economic hardship from the Suzi Petkovskis of this world. The same clamped, chain-smoking capacity for endurance, the same grim shrug, as if politics were some kind of massive, capricious weather system you couldn’t do anything about. I went back to watching the skyline. "