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You're an idealist. The idealists are always the revolutionaries, the cat's paws. Then the realists consolidate, compromise and liquidate the opposition.
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dyal-travec
revolution
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While Milke gingerly carried the packet of explosive across the lake, Paskell stood by the port watching. Milke surveyed the landscape with fine calculation, setting down the packet, moving it a few yards to the right, another few yards toward the defile. Finally satisfied, he looked back to Paskell for approval. Paskell signaled casually, and his hand fell against the detonation switch. He looked out toward Milke, hastily jumped into his [..
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black-humor
bumbling
near-death
prospecting
pusillanimity
three-legged-joe
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Le persone che vivevano in massa, penso Shorn, erano come ciottoli su di una spiaggia: ciascuna levigava il suo vicino, fino a quando tutte erano assolutamente uniformi.
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At the last moments of the universe, with eternal darkness converging from all sides, surely someone will arise and cry out: 'Hold back the end for a final moment, while I pay tribute to the gallant brewmasters who have provided us a pathway of golden glory down the fading corridors of time!' And then, is it not possible that a bright gap will appear in the dark, through which the brewmasters are allowed to proceed, to build a finer univers..
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To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metathasm, corolopsis.
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Where cowards never venture, heroes find splendor. So
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We'll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.
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Jack Vance |
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If the past is a house of many chambers, then the present is the most recent coat of paint.
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Jack Vance |
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I still feel that we should act with restraint. It's much easier not to do than to undo.
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Jack Vance |
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b450712
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I'd rather be a live pessimist than a dead comedian.
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Jack Vance |
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My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect--a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity.
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Jack Vance |
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I'm only giving orders because I'm more efficient and smarter than you are.
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Jack Vance |
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Damned meddlers. It's hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it's just curiosity.
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Jack Vance |
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He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness.
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Jack Vance |
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Another busy day! So let's to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!
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Jack Vance |
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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Jack Vance |
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Your thoughts move with the deft precision of worm-tracks in the mud.
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Jack Vance |
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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Jack Vance |
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If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.
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Jack Vance |
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He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.
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Jack Vance |
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The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.
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Jack Vance |
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Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.
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Jack Vance |
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Control is necessary and even good--so long as I do the controlling.
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Jack Vance |
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Tomorrow?""Sh." She put her hand across his lips. "Never say the word!"
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Jack Vance |
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IF THERE BE HERE LESSON OR MORAL, IT LIES BEYOND THE COMPETENCE OF HIM WHO INSCRIBES THIS RECORD.
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Jack Vance |
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Often their grievances were real; often they complained from sheer petulance.
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Jack Vance |
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The travesty exists only because reliance upon abstraction has made reality incomprehensible to you.
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Jack Vance |
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The town's lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself.
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Jack Vance |
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Let him talk as he will!" scoffed Zamp. "His motives are not at all obscure."
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Jack Vance |
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I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.
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Jack Vance |
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My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.
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Jack Vance |
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!
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Jack Vance |
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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
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Jack Vance |
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My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance."
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Jack Vance |
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His brain ached with the want of knowing.
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Jack Vance |
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I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.
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Jack Vance |
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Yes, I realize that I see but a semblance, but so do you, and who is to say which is real?
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Jack Vance |
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The contingency is remote." (This is also a Jeeves quote in the PG Wodehouse Novels)
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Jack Vance |
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I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.
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Jack Vance |
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Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.
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Jack Vance |
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The purportedly free was seldom as represented.
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Jack Vance |
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All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three."
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Jack Vance |
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I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.
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Jack Vance |
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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