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“You’re sincere enough.” She laughed shortly. “Heaven protect the human race from the sincere idealist!”

— Algis Budrys Some Will Not Die (1961)

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It’s amazing how self-perpetuating ignorance is.

Hard Landing (1993)

Engineers do not particularly like PR men.

Hard Landing (1993)

Never try to reason with a man who can see the blade swinging for his head.

Michaelmas (1977)

Always lobbying for his own emotions, he was the perfect man for a job the administration had tacitly committed to ineptitude.

Michaelmas (1977)

He wondered, as he often had during his life, at people’s ability to think so intricately and to still be wrong.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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