Kage Baker - Sky Coyote (1999)

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The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.

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Like children, they're bored by complicated things. More than bored: they feel threatened. Give a child mashed potatoes and butter, and he's happy. He doesn't want to try the rich sauce with capers, in fact he'll cry if he's forced to taste it. You see what I mean?
But, listen, Joseph. A child is easy to control. Keep him happy, and he'll believe what he's told to believe.

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The awful bottom line, of course, is that if you're going to rule the world, you have to have absolute power, and everybody knows what absolute power does.

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I've been in the entertainment industry ever since, in one capacity or another. It's better than the Inquisition. Usually.

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The truth is, Homo sapiens sapiens is pretty much the same the world over, regardless of skin color or technological development. Racists and provincial types have problems with this fact, but it is a fact. All mortals have the same potential, and only chance determines who's playing a spinet or who's clubbing dinner to death with a big rock. And, you know what? Mortals adapt to the environment in which they're placed. Switch babies between savages and technologicals, and nobody notices! I know, because I've seen it done. I've seen the son of a club-carrying cave dweller fuming because his accounting software wasn't quite adequate for his needs. All humans have the same brain package.

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True believers aren't real receptive to the idea that what they're telling you is just mythology.

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Has there ever been a revolution that produced something better than what it overthrew? The only thing people learn from being oppressed is how to oppress others!

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They find us outlandish, Lopez admitted. Extravagant. Eclectic. Unfathomable.

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When you laugh at something, you don't fear it anymore.

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When you hear a story, do you believe only the nice parts? Truth isn't like a baked fish, where you can eat the flesh and leave the bones and skin. You have to eat it all.

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