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"A laid up steamer was a dead thing and no mistake; a sailing-ship somehow seems always ready to spring into life with the breath of the incorruptible heaven; but a steamer, thought Captain Whalley, with her fires out, without the warm whiffs from below meeting you on her decks, without the hiss of steam, the clangs of iron in her breast- lies there as cold and pulseless as a corpse."
Joseph Conrad, The end of the Tether, novel

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"It has always been the fate of republics to be destroyed by faction."
Abraham Lincoln

We managed to squeak one by in Abe's day. Let's hope our luck still holds.

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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, novel

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"There is the courage of the sword, and the courage of the word, and the courage of the word is rarer."
Ursula K. LeGuin, Voices, novel