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“The highest distinction is service to others.”
“There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.”
“Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.”
“But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.”
“Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.”
“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”
“The living dead had taken more from us than land and loved ones. They'd robbed us of our confidence as the planet's dominant life form. We were a shaken, broken species, driven to the edge of extin...”
“Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.”
“After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.”
“Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from attempts at enraging the undead to provoking pity have all met with disaster. Joy, sadness, confide...”
“America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say perception because America is a very all-or-nothing society We like to know, and f...”
“Unlike its human counterparts, an army of zombies is completely independent of support. It will not require food,ammunition, or medical attention. It will not succumb to panic, desertion, or out-an...”
“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”
“You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.”
“And then you got us. Yeah, we stopped the zombie menace, but we're the ones who let it become a menace in the first place. At least we're cleaning up our own mess, and maybe that's the best epitaph...”
“Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.”
“There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.”
“Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another,...”
“What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.”
“I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.'”
“When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.”
