Gordon R. Dickson

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• “Even as she lay dreaming these dreams, however, a sane part of her mind was still on duty. Realistically, she knew that what she was thinking was nonsense.”
• ““It’s not often I make mistakes,” he said. “Perhaps I can console myself with the thought that when I do they turn out to be on the same order of magnitude as my successes.””
• ““I don’t pretend to be anything but a soldier,” growled Galt.“And it’s precisely that that makes you dangerous in negotiations,” replied William. “Politicians and businessmen always feel more at home with someone who they know doesn’t mean what he says. Honest men always have been a curse laid upon the sharpshooter.”“A pity,” put in Anea, “that there aren’t enough honest men, then, to curse them all.””
• “Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?”
• “In a climate of confusion, one of the surest ways of confounding the enemy is to tell him the plain truth.”
• “With the situation fully and correctly understood, it becomes entirely reasonable that the very small fraction of a second preceding a violent death could be a trigger to speculative thought.”

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