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They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

— Rafael Sabatini Scaramouche (1921)

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Mr Pollexfen was at one and the same time right and wrong—a condition much more common than is generally supposed.

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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

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You have changed a certainty into a possibility, and I hate possibilities — God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.

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"It was heroic!"
"Heroic, is it? Bedad, it's epic! Ye begin to perceive the breadth and depth of my genius."

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"Sir!" she checked him. "I think you are talking treason."
"I hope I am not obscure," said he.

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Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

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John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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