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Book: Persepolis Rising
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James S.A. Corey _ Persepolis Rising
Humanity has done amazing things by just muddling through, arguing and complaining and fighting and negotiating. It's messy and undignified, but it's when we're at our best, because everyone gets to have a voice in it. Even if everyone else is trying to shout it down. Whenever there's just one voice that matters, something terrible comes out of it.
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James S.A. Corey _ Persepolis Rising
Not because of Laconia, not because of the union, not because of any of the authorities through all of history that have made rules and then dared people to break them. Because we're human, and humans are mean, independent monkeys that reached their greatness by killing every other species of hominid that looked at us funny. We will not be controlled for long. Not even by ourselves. Any other plan is a pipe dream.
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James S.A. Corey _ Persepolis Rising
It's the reward of old age," Avasarala said. "You live long enough, and you can watch everything you worked for become irrelevant.
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James S.A. Corey _ Persepolis Rising
I'm really wishing Titan were still on that list of options.""That's waiting for yesterday, sweetheart.
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James S.A. Corey _ Persepolis Rising
No, there doesn't. Every time someone starts talking about final anythings in politics, that means the atrocities are warming up. Humanity has done amazing things by just muddling through, arguing and complaining and fighting and negotiating. It's messy and undignified, but it's when we're at our best, because everyone gets to have a voice in it. Even if everyone else is trying to shout it down. Whenever there's just one voice that matters, something terrible comes out of it.
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James S.A. Corey _ Persepolis Rising
Belters had been a structural underclass fighting to have people on the inner planets even notice when they were dying.
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James S.A. Corey _ Persepolis Rising
The system made the little woody tock that meant she had her privacy again.
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James S.A. Corey _ Persepolis Rising
Her system chirped, a polite little pop like someone snapping bamboo.
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James S.A. Corey _ Persepolis Rising
One more chance to try being the person that the situation called for instead of just herself.
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James S.A. Corey _ Persepolis Rising
Nothing degraded morale like the sense that the potential for excellence was being denied."
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James S.A. Corey _ Persepolis Rising
Individuals build empires because they want their names to echo through time. They build massive constructs of stone and steel so that their descendants will remember the people who created the world that they only live in. There were buildings on Earth that were thousands of years old, sometimes the only remaining evidence of empires that thought they would last forever. Hubris, the professor had called it. When people build, they are trying to make an aspiration physical. When they die, their intentions are buried with them. All that's left is the building. {Ozymandias syndrome, anyone? Ed.}
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James S.A. Corey _ Persepolis Rising
Some sins carried their own punishment. Sometimes redemption meant carrying the past with you forever. She'd gotten used to that over the years, but it was still pretty fucking inconvenient.
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