"Sometimes I don’t know if my life is complicated, or if it’s that I just think too much about things."

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

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“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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