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It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
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Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.
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Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.
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Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.
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Absolute power is the power to destroy.
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
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Truth is subject to too much analysis.
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Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
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All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.
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To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see.
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Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
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Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
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The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
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Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.
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Beaurocracy destroys initiative.
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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
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The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
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A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
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Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
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Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
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