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When self-willed microunits combine to form and sustain a durable macrounit, certain freedoms of action are curtailed.
This is the basic process of Organization.
The more numerous and erratic the microunits, the more complex must be the structure and function of the macrounit—hence the more pervasive and restricting the details of Organization.

— Jack Vance Future Tense (1964)

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My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect—a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity.

The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)

Experience is the only source of wisdom: by which I mean, the competent conduct of life.

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Now, as to the persistence of superstition, only an impoverished mind considers itself the repository of absolute knowledge.

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He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle.

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“Everyone is the same,” he told himself. “Anxious to arrive and, when they leave, wondering why they came.”

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