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“When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.”

“Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.”

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“In this universe, experience counts.”

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““You and I don’t actually need to be here for this,” I said to the goat. The goat didn’t respond, but I could tell she agreed with me.”

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— Halldór Laxness

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