The Culture gives us so much, but in fact it’s only taking things away from us, lobotimizings everybody in it, taking away their choices, their potential for being really good or even slightly bad.
Choose your love. Love your choice.
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Thomas S. Monson
Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure:...
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Lauren Oliver
Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..
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Cassandra Clare
Dante laughed. "No cold soup, no goat cheese. I'll make a mental note. And no Gottfried Curse.""And for you it's no food at all. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>No sleep. And no tunnels."" I'm low maintenance."" Is that what you are? Because I've been trying to figure...
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Yvonne Woon
You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.
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Roy T. Bennett
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The History Of The Universe In Three WordsCHAPTER ONEBang! CHAPTER TWOsssssCHAPTER THREEcrunch.THE END
What, anyway, was he to say? That intelligence could surpass and excel the blind force of evolution, with its emphasis on mutation, struggle and death? That conscious cooperation was more efficient than feral competition?
A temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the head of every one of their flock, for...
