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A paradox arises only out of an ambiguity that deceives either unwittingly or by design.
He was short but lithe and sinewy and his expression was the haughty one he had adopted in order to add a few spiritual inches to his physical height.
People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.
The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.”
Being feared is nothing. Being despised, even, can be lived with. But being laughed at—that’s fatal.
Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.”
slatternly
panegyrics
“You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.
Happy the world without a history, I always say.
“It’s all but impossible to change people’s minds and hearts, Raych. It’s enough to try and perhaps eliminate the worst of the injustices.”
aperitifs
Andorin may find he’s simply riding a greti—” “What’s a greti?” “Some extinct animal of a ferocious type, I think. It’s just a proverbial phrase back on Helicon. If you ride a greti, you find you can’t get off, for then it will eat you.”
parvenu,
junta
“However, though the request is reasonable and the citizenry is better off paying taxes as their price for maintaining a stable and efficient government, they are nevertheless reluctant to do so. In order to overcome this reluctance, governments must make it appear that they are not taking too many credits, and that they are considering each citizen’s rights and benefits. In other words, they must lower the percentage taken out of low incomes; they must allow deductions of various kinds to be made before the tax is assessed, and so
The simplest tax is a poll tax, in which every individual pays the same amount, but the unfairness of treating rich and poor alike in this way is too evident to overlook.”
habitués
obstreperous
dowager
There was so much more in the past, so much less in the future, that the mind turned away from the looming shadow ahead to contemplate the safety of what had gone before.
concatenation
alacrity,
stertorous,
imprimatur,
