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“Counsel will continue,” said the judge, wishing he were Jeffreys so he could send the whole damned bunch to the scaffold. Jurisprudence should be founded on justice, and not be a three-dimensional chess game. But, of course, it was the natural development of the complicated political and economic factors of modern civilization.

— Henry Kuttner

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When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

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I never understood the ultimate answer. That was beyond me.

The Time Axis (1949)

Love is a false synonym for propagation, as the soul is a wish fulfillment creation growing out of self-preservation.

No Boundaries (1955)

A casual eye might have seen nothing extraordinary in Wade as he moved lithely across the meadow toward the Thunderbug.

People seem to like new things—if they weren’t too new, if they didn’t seem to point the way to Change.

Bypass to Otherness (1961)

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