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There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning “That path leads ever down into stagnation.”
when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.
the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life—we went soft, we lost our edge.
Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained.
“Men and their works have been a disease on the surface of their planets before now,”
“Nature tends to compensate for diseases, to remove or encapsulate them, to incorporate them into the system in her own way.”
“You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.”
