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What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.
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Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful
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The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.
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Destiny's Champion,
Fate's fool.
Eternity's Soldier,
Time's Tool.
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If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?
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Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?
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The Lords of Chaos are
the enemies of Logic,
the jugglers of Truth,
the molders of Beauty
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Nothing is known for certain, Isarda. All knowledge is illusion—purpose is a meaningless word, a mere sound, a reassuring fragment of melody in a cacophony of clashing chords. All is flux—matter is like these jewels. (She throws a handful of gleaming gems upon the golden surface; they scatter. When the last jewel has ceased to move, she looks up at him.) Sometimes they fall into a rough pattern, usually they do not. So as this moment, a pattern has been formed—you and I stand here speaking. But at any moment that which constitutes our beings may be scattered again.
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Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.
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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
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All Empires fall,
All ages die,
All strife shall be in vain.
All Kings go down,
All hope must fail,
But Tanelorn remains—
Our Tanelorn remains...
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Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.
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I would be grateful if I was allowed to work out my own destiny for once, I said. For good or ill.
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There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.
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He was a fool, said Willow calmly to Klein. There are many who refuse their responsibilities. Fooling themselves they search for a 'higher ideal'. He was a fool.
What are responsibilities? said Klein laconically. He knows. Responsibility, my dear, is another word for self-interest. For survival.
She looked at Klein uncomprehendingly.
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When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, fearful people, for those who would have no responsibility to themselves or their fellows.
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I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
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By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.
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I felt sorry for him at that moment. He only wanted what every man wanted—freedom from fear, a chance to raise children with a reasonable certainty that they would be allowed to do the same, a chance to look forward to the future without the knowledge that any plans made might be wrecked forever by some sudden act of violence.
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Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.
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There must be countless forms of love. Which is the form which conquers the rest? I cannot define it. I shall not try.
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I stared at the water and saw the clouds reflected in it, saw them break to reveal the moon. It was the same moon I had known as John Daker. The same bland face could be made out staring down in contentment at the antics of the creatures of the planet it circled. How many disasters had that moon witnessed? How many foolish crusades? How many wars and battles and murders?
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It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.
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Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence—perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.
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Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Michael Moorcock
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Born:
December 18, 1939
(age 84)
Bio:
Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels.
Known for:
The Eternal Champion (1970)
Michael Moorcock's Multiverse (1999)
Behold the Man (1969)
Gloriana (1978)
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