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I do not understand your custom in this, but we do not intend to fight until all of us are dead. We desire very much that none of us be dead. And we will fight till all of you are dead only if it is absolutely necessary.

— R. A. Lafferty Space Chantey (1968)

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The shapes they take are both objective and subjective. One can shape them a little with one's own mind.

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A bridge does not abandon its first shore when it grows out in spans towards the further one.

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I am mistress of all the sciences. I go so far beyond all else that my work is called magic.

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Be not nervous. In a very little while you will either be a member or you will not be.

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