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We all might be in less trouble if we did not speak, I sometimes think.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Tried hard, he did, but trying's not doing.
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An accurate fact in an incorrect context is an effective lie. As
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The Russians have a saying. Offer a man a finger, and he will take your hand - if not your arm.
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To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.
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I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.
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Someone in my country made a comment along the lines that solutions are always possible if you are willing to let someone else take the credit.
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If the body is unmastered, the mind will remain unmastered.
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Too often, especially in democratic societies, people mistook the mechanisms of power for power itself.
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Life offers no theology. There is but music and dance.
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Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.
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One can never conclusively prove an idea, only disprove it.
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If you're not practical, I've found, it can be difficult to hold on to your ideals,
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The difference between truth and honesty is the difference between the riverbed and the river.
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The empty quarter, the empty half, the empty outside of a full beaker ... why are these the things he looks for?
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Political science came into being as alchemy was being discredited, although history has since proved that alchemy had a better record.
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Didn't need to fear the Lord on Josephat either, just the idiots who thought they knew His will.
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Were all of us who were furcated across the Web misintegrals of one sort or another? From religious delusionals to obsessed perfectionists?
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Was there really something to the obsolete idea of a national character? Some countries just changed tyrants, without changing anything else.
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According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover.
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Professional interrogators should study mothers.
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Was attraction and repulsion all a matter of appearances? Or preconceptions?
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Hindsight is a lousy gardener, as my father always said.
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Energy is matter, and vice versa, and if you can control energy through your mind, theoretically the rest follows.
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When the complexity of social patterning is reduced, so is individual freedom.
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There are two sides to reality. There is what is, and there is what people believe. Seldom
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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What I still didn't understand was how women could vote in a patriarchal, polygamous society and yet how they clearly voted to support the theocracy.
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A culture that blames the rest of the world or the rest of the galaxy for its ills is likely to stoop to anything. One
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Most people don't care who rules, as long as their lives don't change.
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Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.
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The headline is good - 'World-Renowned Pair Open Concert Reason.
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The tongue of the adder, visible only briefly, is a small matter.
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Good principles and feelings are far from enough to ensure peace and prosperity - or free actions for people.
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All life is structure.
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Most people did think that way, unable to look beyond the letter of the rules or what they believed.
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No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.
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They say you can do anything with plastique except play with sparks, but I still treat things that can blow you apart with respect. It can't hurt.
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The great fault of logic is that it seems so reasonable, even when it is not.
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In a technological society, the practice of completely private property cannot exist.
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Music must lead people, don't you think?" asked Thies. "If it follows whatever the popular taste happens to be, then what's its value?
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Power beyond great power allows honesty and compels those in such a society to demand it.
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Amazing how what you didn't have kept coming to mind.
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The unexpected only means that which you have not expected.
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If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.
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The difference between an explanation and an excuse lies with the one receiving it.
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Always harder, isn't it, when you start to care again?
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I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.
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A chronometer will measure intervals precisely, but not the passage of time.
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As usual, they'd missed the point, almost as if on purpose.
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I kept watching the trees, as if I could see them grow or something. They didn't. The only thing that grew was their shadows.
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Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.
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Out of deference to tradition I did wear a hat to church, weddings, ceremonial occasions, and when my head was cold.
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Every individual's face is no more and no less than a mask.
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Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.
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Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
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the most important thing was to show strength of will, not when matters were going well, but when they were going badly.
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Of necessity, you will have to maintain her respect becasue I will not have my sister ever disrespected." Bhayar
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All life is sorrow.
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