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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

— H. Beam Piper A Slave is a Slave (1962)

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Politics is nothing but common action to secure more favorable living conditions.

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For each man the world ends when he dies.

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“Bad luck!” Brannad Klav snorted. “That’s the standing excuse of every incompetent!”

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Nobody will admit his own mental inferiority, even to himself.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

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To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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