"Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation."

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Source : Daniel Suarez (2010). “Daemon”, p.270, Hachette UK

Daniel Suarez

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“You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly”
“I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy it.”
“I came, I saw, God conquered.”
“Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.”
“It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.”

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“It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 3),
“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”
“The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.”

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