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“faithful, resolute, alive, You and the Two Lands that has no enemies; This life is no more than a dream, so seize the day before it passes!”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

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“Few know it, but the Devil rewards insurrection. After all, rebellion is the original sin, and he did conceive it.”
― Tanya Thompson

tags: devil, disobedience, insurrection, original-sin, rebellion, reward, the-devil

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“You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!
I was cured alright.”
― Anthony Burgess, Clockwork Orange

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“It’s cold here; I have a sparrow in a box with his foot frozen off; I’m afraid I’m going to have to kill him as I cannot keep him in that box & he can’t possibly live if I turn him loose. This is a tough world for lots of people, including sparrows.10”
― Harold Schechter, The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation

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“They took one look at Zip2’s code and began rewriting the vast majority of the software. Musk bristled at some of their changes, but the computer scientists needed just a fraction of the lines of code that Musk used to get their jobs done. They had a knack for dividing software projects into chunks that could be altered and refined whereas Musk fell into the classic self-taught coder trap of writing what developers call hairballs—big, monolithic hunks of code that could go berserk for mysterious reasons.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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