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There’s never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn’t think he was fully justified. That’s a mental trick called rationalizing, and it’s done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.

— Leigh Brackett The Long Tomorrow (1955)

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The man who doesn’t fear, doesn’t live long. I fear everything.

The Ginger Star (1974)

“Will it always stay like this?”
“Nothing,” said Hostetter, “ever stays always like anything.”

The Long Tomorrow (1955)

You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.

The Long Tomorrow (1955)

Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it.

The Long Tomorrow (1955)

Invisibility is a condition of godhead. If folk could see them, they would know the truth, and the Lords Protector would cease to be divine.

The Ginger Star (1974)

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