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He takes every change that has taken place over the past two hundred years as a personal affront.

— Michael Kurland A Study in Sorcery (1989)

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It’s what a man thinks is true which controls his actions, not what is really true.

Tomorrow Knight (1976)

The pleasure of receiving an accolade is somewhat diluted by the problem of living up to it.

A Study in Sorcery (1989)

“‘Be not the first by whom the new is tried,’ as that poet fellow said, ‘Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.’”

Ten Little Wizards (1988)

There’s more leg room in first class, to be sure, but there’s more poetry in second class—and more honesty in third.

Ten Little Wizards (1988)

A possibility eliminated is a risk not taken.

A Study in Sorcery (1989)

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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