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  "text": "\"It seems to me that a man has only as much power as we allow him. Can Ceska move mountains? Can he put out the stars? Can he tell rain to fall? He is only a man, and if everyone disobeyed him, he would fall. But they don’t, do they? It is said that he has an army of forty thousand men. Men. Drenai men! Ready to march on other Drenai men. At least in the Nadir Wars we were sure of our enemy. Now there is no enemy. Only failed friends.”",
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      "text": "\"I had a teacher ... He said there were three kinds of people in life: winners, losers and fighters. Winners made him sick with their arrogance, losers made him sick with their whining, and fighters made him sick with their stupidity.\" \"In which category did he put himself?\" \"He said he had tried all three and nothing suited him.\" \"Well, at least he tried. That's all a man can do, Lake. And we shall try.\"",
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      "text": "\"We irritated him, he told me. Why did he get himself killed for us?\" \"Because he was a hero. And that is what heroes do. You understand?\"",
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      "text": "Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here—we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.",
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