“Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.”
“This must be the sixth realm, the nameless void. Entropy is the only lord here. We will all bow down before him in the end.”
“Computers aren’t smart, just fast. Garbage in, garbage out.”
“We’re on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you’ve got money.”
“It’s not a god he worships, it’s the devil.”
“National and regional governments were committing vast resources into combating the biosphere breakdown. Social welfare, infrastructure administration, health care, and security — the fields government used to devote its efforts to — were all slowly being starved of tax money and sold off to private industry. It”
“I’m an appropriate companion personality for a girl your age, young missy. We spent all night ransacking that library to see what I should be like. You got any idea what it’s like watching eight million hours of Disney AVs?”
“war is the result of total irrationality combined with conflict of interest.”
“This universe and all it is connected with will come to an end. Entropy carries us towards the inevitable omega point, that is why entropy exists.”
“killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn’t read the label on the medicine bottle.”
“Thoale alone knows why suicides are so fond of jumping off cliffs and bridges; they wouldn’t if they knew what that trip’s like.”
“Any sentient entity who has lived, has changed.”
“Life seemed suddenly a little empty, for never again could there happen to her something so dangerous, so sublime.”
“In former times great objects were attained by great work. When evils were to be reformed, reformers set about their heavy task with grave decorum and laborious argument. An age was occupied in proving a grievance, and philosophical researches were printed in folio pages, which it took a life to write, and an eternity to read. We get on now with a lighter step, and quicker: ridicule is found to be more convincing than argument, imaginary agonies touch more than true sorrows,”
“That’s all childhood is, after all: strong arms to hold back the dark, a story to keep the shadows dancing, and a candle to mark the long journey into day.”
“Most people can’t truly conceive of being in a place where death might be preferable to life. Life is strong. It grips you in many ways, from the beating of your heart, to the sun on your face, to the feel of the ground beneath your feet. It grasps you.”
“how easily the hunter can become the prey. All it takes is a new perspective.”
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