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  1. Scott Westerfeld _ Goliath

    Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.
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  2. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.
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  3. John Fowles _ The Collector

    I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
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  4. Colson Whitehead _ Sag Harbor

    As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.
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  5. Kresley Cole _ Poison Princess

    When Matthew merely stared at him, Jackson reached into the weapon box and pulled out a sheathed machete, handing it to the boy.Matthew laughed and dropped it.
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  6. Charles Stross _ A Colder War

    There is probably no way of explaining Project Koschei, or XK-PLUTO, or MK-NIGHTMARE, or the gates, without watering them down into just another weapons system -- which they are not. Weapons may have deadly or hideous effects, but they acquire moral character from the actions of those who use them. Whereas these projects are indelibly stained by a patina of ancient evil ...
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?""Only a man would think of that.It's our job," said Moist. "If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else will.
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  9. R.A. Salvatore _ Streams of Silver

    To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.
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  10. Sarah J. Maas _ Heir of Fire

    The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you."
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  11. Lois Lowry _ The Willoughbys

    ...Father dislikes weaponry of any sort. ""Yes, he's even suspicious of Mother's knitting scissors," Barnaby B pointed out. "He feels all warfare should be conducted with taunts and gibes and vicious rumors.
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  12. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves again. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me?
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