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He held the bag out to her. “A present for Lieutenant Angel. Something
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She took it and put it back on the desk. “Wipe that damn grin off
your face, Sergeant. A smiling Toltec is a contradiction in terms.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read. These things always go together.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Queen's Fool

“In Europe, nobody will bleep you, if you want to say a "bad" word on TV. The idea that some self-righteous little old lady at the FCC gets to tell other people which words they may or may not use, seems like a pretty strange concept in the rest of the civilized world.

Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The War on Drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American War on Words. When you forbid a word, you give it power. Self-proclaimed rebels will use words like shit or fuck, simply to shock and sound cool.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Going to New York

“Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.”
― Robin Wasserman, The Book of Blood and Shadow

“The only good is knowledge, Sekhandur. The only evil is ignorance'.

'That is a saying uttered by as many fools as visionaries and an attitude that has led to damnation more than once. The last man to speak those words in my presence doomed our Legion.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Black Legion

“Don’t you want to pierce the veil of the gods? To look at that which cannot be seen because it cannot really exist, and yet does?”
― Toby R. Beeny, The Babel Project