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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. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

An accurate fact in an incorrect context is an effective lie. As — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The Russians have a saying. Offer a man a finger, and he will take your hand - if not your arm. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

If the body is unmastered, the mind will remain unmastered. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Too often, especially in democratic societies, people mistook the mechanisms of power for power itself. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Life offers no theology. There is but music and dance. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

One can never conclusively prove an idea, only disprove it. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

If you're not practical, I've found, it can be difficult to hold on to your ideals, — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The difference between truth and honesty is the difference between the riverbed and the river. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The empty quarter, the empty half, the empty outside of a full beaker ... why are these the things he looks for? — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Political science came into being as alchemy was being discredited, although history has since proved that alchemy had a better record. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Didn't need to fear the Lord on Josephat either, just the idiots who thought they knew His will. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Were all of us who were furcated across the Web misintegrals of one sort or another? From religious delusionals to obsessed perfectionists? — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Was there really something to the obsolete idea of a national character? Some countries just changed tyrants, without changing anything else. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Professional interrogators should study mothers. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Was attraction and repulsion all a matter of appearances? Or preconceptions? — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Hindsight is a lousy gardener, as my father always said. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Energy is matter, and vice versa, and if you can control energy through your mind, theoretically the rest follows. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

When the complexity of social patterning is reduced, so is individual freedom. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

There are two sides to reality. There is what is, and there is what people believe. Seldom — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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 — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Most people don't care who rules, as long as their lives don't change. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The headline is good - 'World-Renowned Pair Open Concert Reason. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The tongue of the adder, visible only briefly, is a small matter. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Good principles and feelings are far from enough to ensure peace and prosperity - or free actions for people. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

All life is structure. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Most people did think that way, unable to look beyond the letter of the rules or what they believed. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The great fault of logic is that it seems so reasonable, even when it is not. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

In a technological society, the practice of completely private property cannot exist. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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? — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Power beyond great power allows honesty and compels those in such a society to demand it. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Amazing how what you didn't have kept coming to mind. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The unexpected only means that which you have not expected. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The difference between an explanation and an excuse lies with the one receiving it. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Always harder, isn't it, when you start to care again? — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

A chronometer will measure intervals precisely, but not the passage of time. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

As usual, they'd missed the point, almost as if on purpose. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Out of deference to tradition I did wear a hat to church, weddings, ceremonial occasions, and when my head was cold. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Every individual's face is no more and no less than a mask. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

the most important thing was to show strength of will, not when matters were going well, but when they were going badly. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Of necessity, you will have to maintain her respect becasue I will not have my sister ever disrespected." Bhayar — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

All life is sorrow. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.