but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation … - Jim Butcher

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Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

Jim Butcher

but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn't changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would.

Advance, Disease, Technology, War, Way

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There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

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Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

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The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

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Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

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There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

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