Gordon R. Dickson Quotes

#1. A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

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#2. We're painted savages, nothing more, in spite of what we like to think of as some thousands of years of civilization. Only our present paint's called clothing and our caves called buildings

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#3. the faithholder is his faith. He and it make, not two, but a single thing. Since he and it are one, there's no way to take it from him. That makes him a very powerful opponent. In fact, it makes him an unconquerable opponent; since even death can't touch him in his most important part.

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#4. Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.

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#5. Live today as if it was ur last and don't ever say it is impossible cos nothing great was achieved with ease

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#6. More blood's been spilled by the militant adherents of prophets of change than by any other group of people down through the history of man.

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#7. John Le Carre said that authenticity is less important than plausibility.

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#8. For sooner or later, no matter what fantastic long-range weapons you mounted, the ground itself had to be taken - and for that there had never been anything but the man in the ranks.

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#9. Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

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#10. I, wanderer, stand awaiting the signal.

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#11. I'm not an expert," said Cletus. "I'm a scholar. There's a difference. An expert's a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholar's someone who knows all there is that's available to be known about it.

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#12. Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.

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#13. A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.

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#14. Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

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#15. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

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#16. The trick with modern warfare was not to outgun the enemy, but carry weapons he could not gimmick.

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#17. Sir Brian told him in fulsome scatological terms what he could do with his lineage.

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#18. Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time's worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

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