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Ridiculous. But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.
Defend a weak new neighbor to weaken the old powerful ones, as Machiavelli had said.
“The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren’t the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.”
tinted glass of the rover’s windows the whiteness
hill, the mark of some relatively recent meteor impact, filled in by subsequent ice deposition. They stopped to take
impact. It would be strange to find
“Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability.
“Anyway that’s a large part of what economics is—people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven’t just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful.”
“The King asked his wise men for some single thing that would make him happy when he was sad, but sad when he was happy. They consulted and came back with a ring engraved with the message ‘This Too Will Pass.’ ”
I died as mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal. I died as animal and I was human. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more I shall die human, To soar with angels blessed above. And when I sacrifice my angel soul I shall become what no mind ever conceived.
