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Richter 10


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“That’s what I think they’re doing, eating themselves alive. They murder in the name of God and blindly destroy the very ecosystem that sustains them.”

“People are people.” Bert shrugged.
“What you’re really saying is that people are animals,” Crane replied. “And I say to you, it doesn’t have to be that way. We can make a civilization, a real civilization, built on real understanding of ourselves and our universe.”
Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 20, “Shimani-Gashi” (p. 362)

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“So many people did it that it was no longer an obsession; it was a demographic.”

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 4, “Geomorphological Processes” (p. 77)

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“Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out.”

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 18, “Hidden Faults” (p. 327)

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“Man's bodily functions moved only toward death, but the mind could continue to enrich itself even as everything else embraced entropy.”

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 18, “Hidden Faults” (p. 323)

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