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Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.

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Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.

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Have you noticed we can breathe in here too?Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.

Dan Abnett, Hereticus
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But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

Dan Abnett, Xenos
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If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.

Dan Abnett, Xenos
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Enemy?’ Horus laughed. ‘When did they become the enemy? They are men like us.’ He glared up at the night sky, threw back his head and screamed a curse at the stars. Then his voice fell to a whisper. Loken was close enough to hear his words.‘Why have you tasked me with this, father? Why have you forsaken me? Why? It is too hard. It is too much. Why did you leave me to do this on my own?

Dan Abnett, Horus Rising
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The Emperor, you see, protects... He protects mankind, through the Legions, through the Martial corps, through the war machines of the Mechanicum. He understands the dangers. The inconsistencies. He uses you, and all the instruments like you, to protect us from harm. To protect our physical bodies from murder and damage, to protect our minds from madness, to protect our souls... There are insane dangers in the cosmos, dangers that mankind is fundamentally unable to comprehend, let alone survive. So he protects us. There are truths out there that would drive us mad by one fleeting glimpse of them. So he chooses not to share them with us. That's why he made you... Remember, Garviel. The Emperor is our truth and out light. If we trust in him, he will protect.

Dan Abnett, Horus Rising
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Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!

Dan Abnett, Prospero Burns
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I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

Dan Abnett, Horus Rising
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He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.

Dan Abnett, Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By
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Do I look evil? I can't do evil. I can barely pull off dangerous.

Dan Abnett, Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By
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