Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.
("A Canticle for Leibowitz")
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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law-a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.Walter M. Miller Jr
Probing the womb of the future is bad for the child.
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But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.
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Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.
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I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
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Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.
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