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You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!

— H. Beam Piper A Slave is a Slave (1962)

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Politics is nothing but common action to secure more favorable living conditions.

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A planet could take pretty good care of itself, he thought, if people would only leave it alone.

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For each man the world ends when he dies.

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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

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“Bad luck!” Brannad Klav snorted. “That’s the standing excuse of every incompetent!”

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