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To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep...more

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You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the co...more

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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and fa...more

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I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

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He who controls the spice controls the universe.

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They compose poems to their knives.

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I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

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Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

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Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. H...more

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The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.

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Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute mona...more

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At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough numbers. B...more