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Is all this serious? Gurgeh said, turning, amused, from the screen to the drone.
Deadly serious, Flere-Imsaho told him.
Gurgeh laughed and shook his head. He thought the common people must be remarkably stupid if they believed all this nonsense.

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There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

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He knew in his heart that there was a relief in not being listened to, sometimes. Power meant responsibility. Advice unacted upon almost always might have been right, and in the working out of whatever plan was followed, there was anyway always blood; better it was on their hands. The good soldier did as he was told, and if he had any sense at all volunteered for nothing, especially promotion.

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The news team, and Hamin, seemed well pleased. You should have been an actor, Jernau Gurgeh, Hamin told him.
Gurgeh assumed this was intended as a compliment.

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