History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.
Life’s a forge, boy, and the purest metal comes from the hottest fire. When you’ve been under the hammer a few times, you’ll find you’ve been beaten down to the real, no lies, no excuses. There’ll.
I don’t have any problem with what other people believe, so long as they don’t expect their beliefs to affect my behavior.
Come on, Sunshine, if you think you’re hard enough.
Logic wasn’t the governing factor here. It rarely is in human affairs.
If that meant Adele was lying to a politician, it was merely a pleasant reversal of roles.
People like to think that their convenience is important. Daniel had found that as a general rule the universe didn’t agree, and that other human beings tended to be a subset of ‘the universe’ in this regard.
I’ve decided that it’s better to be alive until it’s time to be buried.
I suppose I would be wiser to adjust my attitude rather than to expect the universe to change reality.
The universe has never appeared to me to be particularly fair,” Adele said at last. “I think some people should be thankful for that reality.
It wasn’t that they had different principles; rather, their principles were of such different sorts that neither one could recognize that the other even had principles.
A fire department isn’t a waste of tax money, even if those assigned to it spend most of the time washing their cars.
I sat in on a late-night party once in which the subject of friendship came up, and I listened in dumbstruck incredulity as one man explained that his friends had to like the same things he did – that they must not only read the same books and magazines he did, and listen to the same music, but pretty much share his opinions of all those things. He.
It’s all right for a leader to be ruthless, Adele thought. He shouldn’t be whimsical, though, and he especially shouldn’t be whimsically ruthless.
Arrogance wasn’t the same thing as stupidity, but it tended to have similar results.
Danger is another thing that’s more romantic to read about than the reality of blood and burns and the screams transcending age and gender and even humanity. Pain can be a sound, pure sound, and pictures can’t prepare you for the smell of a man trying to stuff his intestines back into his ripped abdomen.
Many times information was most effective when it wasn’t used. The same was true of any other weapon.
The things other people said or did would always give room to take offense, if you were of a mind to take offense. Therefore the fault wasn’t in the other people.
Dogs don’t need philosophies, they just fight. It seems to me that men do the same, though they usually come up with reasons. Justice is a good one.
So long as authority comes only from having a hand on a throat, wisdom and mercy are a moot point.
Lieutenant Daniel Leary ambled through the streets of Kostroma City in the black-piped gray 2nd Class uniform of the Republic of Cinnabar Navy. He was on his way to the Elector’s Palace, but there was no hurry and really nothing more important for Daniel to do than to savor the fact that he’d realized one of his childhood dreams: to walk a far world and see its wonders first hand.