"Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished."

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Source : Alastair Reynolds (2003). “Chasm City”, p.271, Penguin

Alastair Reynolds

#Memories Quotes #Victory Quotes

“Lita wait! I need advice on taking 5 guys at once!”
“Energy is in America. And if we can tap into that safely and appropriately, I guarantee that is something that President Trump will certainly look into in a very serious way.”
“I want to win championships.”
“The square root of I is I.”
“Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?”
“There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them.”
“I often ask myself: "What would Theodore Roosevelt do?" One can never know, of course. The ultimate contribution of consequential leaders is often their capacity to reframe issues in novel ways. That said, his leadership engaged, at a foundational level, whether the American "national character" would accept decline and mediocrity, or would go all-in for leadership and excellence. Amid the myriad of otherwise disconnected issues before us, that choice is emerging yet again.”
“Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market.”

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