"Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure."
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"What you cannot control, you must accept."
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"If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken."
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"We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems."
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"That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it."
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"The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life-- Curtaineth into rest the weary world-- And shuts us in with all our hid delights."
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"A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people."
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"What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses."
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"Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build."
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"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."
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"But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write."
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"To determine if you're human. Be silent."
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"Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!"
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"If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!"
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"Emotions are the curse of logic."
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"Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself."
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"No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero."
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"You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing."
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"Is evolution just another name for God?"
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"Law is the ultimate science."
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