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They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.
“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”
She took the view that Aboutness didn’t exist—was an illusion that any sufficiently advanced syndev creates for itself.
I ran after him. My usual role in life.
There was no plan, no procedure, so simple that it could not get massively screwed up when thousands of persons tried to carry it out at the same time.
“Violence is mostly about energy delivery. Fists, clubs, swords, bullets, death rays—their purpose is to dump energy into a person’s body.”
“I am fascinated,” I insisted. “That’s the problem. I am suffering from fascination burnout. Of all the things that are fascinating, I have to choose just one or two.”
“You’d be surprised how far rational Dialog goes with war time military.”
First Harbinger was a worldwide outbreak of violent revolutions, the Second was a world war, and the Third was a genocide.
Upsight: A sudden, usually unlooked-for moment of clear understanding.
never believe a thing only because one wishes that it were true.
