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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Knowledge
Evil
Power
Good

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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It’s infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn’t too great.
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...there is power in self-sacrifice.
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He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
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Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.
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By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I’m wearing a bright red dress. And there’s a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.
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But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.
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I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.
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I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.
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He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.
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That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
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My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.
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What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?
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