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The Veksi are an angry species. Their social life consists largely of arguments, recriminations, quarrels, fights, outbursts of fury, fits of the sulks, brawls, feuds, and impulsive acts of vengeance.
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assumed that if you removed a human being's natural incentive to work--his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy--and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker. But
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We read books to find out who we are.
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What's to gain by silence?
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Mysticism," she said, in the tone of voice of one warning a companion about dog-shit on the path.
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Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists.
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No granite is so hard as hatred and no clay so cold as cruelty.
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What was the good working for freedom all your life and ending up without any freedom at all?
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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I was afraid I'd fail. So I didn't work.
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Josef liked to read books, not pack them.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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Men who fight wars in Winter don't live till Spring.
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He detested them for forcing helplessness upon him.
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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.
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The more defensive a society, the more conformist.
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Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.
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One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.
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Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
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It is not human to be without shame and without desire.
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The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.
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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
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To be whole is to be part;true voyage is return.
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Excess is excrement.
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Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.
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He felt that sense of being necessary which is the burden and reward of parenthood.
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Existence is its own justification, need is right.
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Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.
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It is light that defeats the dark.
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Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him.
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He resolved not to speak again until he had controlled his temper.
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The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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Well," he said. "Strange roads have strange guides. Let's go on."
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The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.
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One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.
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There's nothing to fear, Lebannen," he said gently, mockingly. "They were only the dead."
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
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If they come prying they can leave curious.
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Is it different, then, for men and for women?""What isn't, dearie?"
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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Is power that--an emptiness?
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