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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - December 21, 2025
Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991  
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
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Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street  
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
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Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)  
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Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
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Antisthenes (445 BC - 365 BC)  
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