Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written. —Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion.
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“What is a year?”
A year? What is a year? All time is relative. One day may be a lifetime, a year can be forever. It is not the number of days, but what goes into those days. —Louis L’Amour, The Warrior’s Path.
“What government funds…”
What the government funds, it controls; and what it controls, it owns.
Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island.
“Every age fraught with discord and danger…”
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion.
“It is man’s destiny, I think…”
We need such men, lad, men who can look to the beyond, to ever strive for something out there beyond the stars. It is man’s destiny, I think, to go forward, ever forward.
Louis L’Amour, The Warrior’s Path
“The injustices of the world…”
Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.
Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates
“A land needs people to nurse its flesh…”
How lonely were those silent hills! How reaching out for the sounds of men, for I believe a land needs people to nurse its flesh and bring from it the goodness of crops.”
Louis L’Amour, The Warrior’s Path.
“Belief in the lie…”
Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Powers.
“The god Luck is deaf in one ear…”
The god Luck is deaf in one ear, they say, the ear we pray to; he can’t hear our prayers. What he hears, what he listens to, nobody knows. Denios the poet said he hears the wheels of the stars’ great chariots turning on the roads of heaven.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Powers