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You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.
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Poul Anderson |
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Time is the bridge that always burns behind us.
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Poul Anderson |
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We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?
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Poul Anderson |
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A greedy man is an unlucky man.
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Poul Anderson |
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Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.
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Poul Anderson |
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Don't talk, you," he said. "It hurts my ears. Nor think; that hurts your head.'"
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Poul Anderson |
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When facts are insufficient, theorizing is ridiculous at best, misleading at worst.
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Poul Anderson |
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Let's stop making wild guesses and start gathering data.
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Poul Anderson |
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I think most human misery is due to well-meaning fanatics like him.
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Poul Anderson |
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Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.
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Poul Anderson |
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Everard sighed, switched off his conscience, and began lying.
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Poul Anderson |
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Say on. If you are a rogue, you are at least an interesting one.
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Poul Anderson |
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I'm still spry, but I feel the teeth gnawing, and believe me, my friends, it was better to be young.
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Poul Anderson |
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Here was more than a question of law; it was a matter of whose will should prevail.
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Poul Anderson |
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Know that against time the gods themselves are powerless.
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Poul Anderson |
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Sincerity is the most overrated virtue in the catalogue.
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Poul Anderson |
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So this," he said, "is the excitement and glory of war! I'll never believe a ballad singer again."
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Poul Anderson |
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Peace," he added, "is kept by the good will and strength of the peaceful."
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Poul Anderson |
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A little careful pushing, and they'll bury the hatchet all right--in each other.
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Poul Anderson |
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Too far a retreat from reality is insanity.
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Poul Anderson |
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Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden's arms.
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Poul Anderson |
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You should pay no heed to what some yokel priest has prated of. What does he know?
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Poul Anderson |
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Over unforced love, the gods themselves had no might.
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Poul Anderson |
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'Tis colder outside than a well-born maiden's heart.
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Poul Anderson |
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People usually take for granted that the way things are is the way things must be.
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Poul Anderson |
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Her rank was higher than his, so high that no one in her family worked productively.
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Poul Anderson |
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I do not think the coerced mind ever really learns an art.
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Poul Anderson |
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Life was too short for anything but amusement at the human race.
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Poul Anderson |
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You can have more adventure in an hour's walk through a forest than in a year on a spaceship.
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Poul Anderson |
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On our Earth, we've perforce learned all the knavery there is to know.
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Poul Anderson |
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It was lonely, not even knowing yourself.
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Poul Anderson |
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You cannot imagine how wearisome existence grows, alone and immortal.
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Poul Anderson |
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He'd seen too often how little of the universe is designed for man to neglect any safety measure.
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Poul Anderson |
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The last thing any sane person wants is a jihad.
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Poul Anderson |
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There really wasn't much in a man's life that mattered. But those few things mattered terribly.
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Poul Anderson |
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Are you that afraid to die?""No. I simply like to live."
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Poul Anderson |
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A cultured, sensitive, observant man is a pleasure to be with in any age.
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Poul Anderson |
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His conscience must have gotten tired of nagging him and delivered an ultimatum.
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Poul Anderson |
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Mortal combat corrupts, and war corrupts absolutely.
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Poul Anderson |
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Be calm. A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.
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Poul Anderson |
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Did ignorance save his freedom, or merely his illusion of freedom?
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Poul Anderson |
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Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.
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Poul Anderson |
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Man's duty in this life, he thought, is to choose the lesser evil.
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Poul Anderson |
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Your trouble is, the Old Faith reinforces every wish to kill that war has roused in you.
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Poul Anderson |