"No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other peopleâ€™s livestock. Other peopleâ€™s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them. They were different in so many ways, white and black, yellow and brown, skinny, short, tall, small, but they were all the same. Didnâ€™t matter if they wore finger-bone necklaces, or baby teeth on bracelets, or tattoos on their chests to ward off bullets. In the end, they were all mangled with battle scars and their eyes were all dead."

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Source : Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.39, Hachette UK

Paolo Bacigalupi

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Source : "NRA: 'Only Thing That Stops A Bad Guy With A Gun Is A Good Guy With A Gun'". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Peter Overby, www.npr.org. December 21, 2012.
“You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.”

Source : "The World’s Most Beautiful College Dorms" by Claire Cottrell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.
“You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.”
“Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.”
“Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields.”
“There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.183, Da Capo Press
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