Born too late to explore the earth, born too soon to explore the galaxy, born just in time to chimp tf out
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"...she put them... On his face... Suddenly towers pulled from his body and senses and saw the world without her mask on. A tangle of fields and dimensions. The height of time, the width of space. And he knew then that matter is both a point, and a wave, and a joke. And he saw the logic at the bottom of everything, and the madness at the top, and the shape of becoming, and the dance of define. Only then he saw himself, in true perspective. A spec, on a blob, on a smudge, on a blemish, on a fleck, in a grain of galactic sand, amid a billion other beaches. And those beaches themselves only made up more grains of sand, and more grains of sand, and more grains of sand, and more grains of sand, and more grains of sand." -exurb1a

"The function of Rhetoric, then, is to deal with things about which we deliberate, but for which we have no systematic rules; and in the presence of such hearers as are unable to take a general view of many stages, or to follow a lengthy chain of argument. But we only deliberate about things which seem to admit of issuing in two ways; as for those things which cannot in the past, present, or future be otherwise, no one deliberates about them, if he supposes that they are such; for nothing would be gained by it." -Aristotle

•Competition breeds excellence
•Captivity breeds creativity
•Familiarity breeds contempt

•Everything is all the time and all that matters is now
•Knowledge is power and it's pretty lightweight

•All things must die. Whether you burn out or explode is up to you
•We are swept ever upwards by our ambition, with no thought of what awaits us at the peak

•Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none
•Do not be remembered for the mess you leave behind

•Curiosity is followed by ambition. Ambition is followed by madness.
•Night's promises are dark, for even the stars must be harvested.

•Those who stand should never outnumber those who kneel
•Should we feel disgusted at how the weak predate the strong, or should we feel... admiration?

•Justice born of love is a surrender. Justice born of law is punishment.
•We ascend to great heights to commit low acts.

•Affluence and effluence, separated by a few feet of soil
•An unwashed gutter, where wretches cut purses and throats alike

•Lives come and go, only bones and dust remain
•Repetition. Convention. Duplication. Distilled to perfection.

•If everyone is special, no one is
•A fallen castle has failed its only purpose

•Verdant life blossoms amidst death
•Each branch, each leaf, an extension of a web that spans sanity

•Wealth beyond imagining, locked beyond reach
•The dead ask to be remembered, but such requests are seldom met

•Man and nature intertwined, but only for the chosen few
•The best techniques are passed on by the survivors

•Every reprisal is itself an act of aggression, and every act of aggression triggers immediate reprisal
•Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation can cause your worst fears to come true.

•God is a concept by which we measure our pain
•Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

•Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people
•If you're not paying for the product, you are the product

•A fool and their money are soon parted
•A bad workman always blames their tools

•Strike while the iron is hot
•Don't cross a bridge until you come to it

"......... .. .... ... .. ... ...and they danced the nihilist waltz... ... .. ... .... .. .......