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“Don’t lose your temper,” said Ruell evenly. “It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.”

— Damon Knight A for Anything (1959)

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No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties.

A for Anything (1959)

When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate.

A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class.

A for Anything (1959)

Science fiction … means what we point to when we say it.

We humanitarians, as our name suggests, believe that man has an ethical duty to man. We believe that the value of any system is measured by the consideration given to all human beings, not just to a favored class: and by that standard, our present system is a miserable failure.

A for Anything (1959)

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