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A REMARKABLE INSTANCE ON THE PUBLIC SCALE OF THE REAL-LIFE IMPLEMENTATION OF XAVIER CONROY'S DICTUM ABOUT THE PERFECTLY DEFENDED MAN Following Paraguay's declaration of independence from Spain Dr. Francia, the dictator known as "El Supremo," adopted a simple foreign policy: no one was permitted to enter or leave the country and trade was absolutely forbidden."
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I don't think of my fellow men as dangerous. I think of them as capable of occasional dangerous mistakes.
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This continent is littered coast to coast with people who were compelled to study business administration when they should have been painting murals or practicing the fiddle or digging a truck garden, and finally got their chance when it was twenty years too late to lead them anywhere.
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it was more a matter of time being divided up for you; if the ordained segments were too short, you got little done, while if they were too long, you got less done than you could have.
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John Brunner |
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First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race.
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If I ever get good at hospital politics, I think I shall start to hate myself.
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Blessed are they who expect the worst, for they shall get it!
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HIPCRIME You committed one when you opened this book. Keep it up. It's our only hope.
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Nothing short of religion could persuade a normal girl to make herself look so awful.
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COINCIDENCE You weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on.
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You don't have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.
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Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?
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So not only the world, but he himself, was different from what he had imagined.
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Governments don't change things," she said. "Only time does that."
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You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.
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What in God's name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
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So what shape was the world in this morning? Even flatter than yesterday.
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John Brunner |
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If "media" is the plural of "medium" the question is: how many of them are fraudulent?
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John Brunner |
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Like all neo-puritans you have a mind like an open drain.
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John Brunner |
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The sound of a code being broken is usually the same as that of somebody snapping his fingers.
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John Brunner |
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The screen was a polychrome swirl, like a rainbow that had been through an electric blender.
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John Brunner |
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Well, like they say, nothing can set a precedent until it happens for the first time.
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We cannot allow quibbles to stand in the way of the truth.
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Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.
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John Brunner |
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Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work."
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How can a man be so brilliant and so obtuse?
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There's an old saying: The genius sees what happens, but the plodder sees what he expects to happen.
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John Brunner |
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Most rich people get rich by taking what they want without paying for it. It's the way of the world.
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If there is a hell, perhaps it consists in living up to all one's promises.
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No faith can possibly suffice. It's always undermined by ignorance.
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