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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
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"I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)"
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"Do you know what I think?" Marcone said."You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.""Yes."I drew my gun. "Okay."
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"Begin to see the violence around you, begin to see the violence within you."
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"Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later."
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"He kills her in her own humor."
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"Was there ever a war where only one side bled?"
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"As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider's head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy's head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road."
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"Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone."
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"May be the power lies in the hands of the one who holds the gun... so he just presses the trigger whenever the slightest streak of anger passes his mind... and after a few haunting days he roams freely in the country without fear .. and what about the one who faces the wrath and bears the bullets? He leaves a movement behind... but haven't such movements always been ephemeral? Is death the price you need to pay to open the eyes of those who care but just for a couple of days?"
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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
Computer
"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
Society
"It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?"
Insight
"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
Men
"Well, sir to say that when the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth, is to make the assumption, usually justified, that everything that is to be considered has indeed been considered. Let us suppose we have considered ten factors. Nine are clearly impossible. Is the tenth, however improbable, therefore true? What if there were an eleventh factor, and a twelfth, & a thirteenth..."
Philosophy
"I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him."
Conflict
"Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason."
Psychology
"The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made everything possible (...) The tribe, sir. Cooperation between individuals."
Society
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
People
"The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans."
Science
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