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Oh, he won't think of it in those terms. He'll be preventing me from sabotaging the Emancipation. He doesn't want to wait three generations; he wants to free them at once. Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.

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

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