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You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
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City of Toronto
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The heart of wisdom is tolerance.
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None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.
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He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.
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Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
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Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.
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