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One man, one vote: A legal doctrine requiring that, from time to time, old gerrymanders be replaced with new ones. The object of this is the achievement of genuine democracy.

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The city was breaking state and national laws every day—it had to—and the governor was outraged. He wanted to bring the whole state back under his own authority. It wasn't an unreasonable wish, but the times weren't ripe; and when they eventually were, the old forms of government would be no more important than the difference between Homoousian and Homoiousian. But it was going to take a lot of argument to convince the Albany man of that.

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He'd seen too often how little of the universe is designed for man to neglect any safety measure.

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A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

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The old man murmured: Aye, we draw to an end. Dying hurts. Nonetheless the forefathers were wise who in their myths made Nan coequal with Lesu. A thing which endured forever would become unendurable. Death opens a way, for peoples as well as for people.

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There really wasn't much in a man's life that mattered. But those few things mattered terribly.

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Keep on thinking. Keep your thinking close to the ground, where it belongs. Don't ever trade your liberty for another man's offer to do your thinking and make your mistakes for you.

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She rarely saw priest—and knowing her heart sinned, was glad of that. Dreary was a church after the woodlands and hills and sounding sea. She still loved God—and was not the earth His work, and a church only man's?—but she could not bring herself to call on Him very often.

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I think you look on death as your friend, she murmured. That is a strange friend for a young man to have.
The only faithful friend in this world, he said. Death is always sure to be at your side.

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A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

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Be calm. A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.

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If anything does change man, he said, it's science and technology. Just think about the fact—while it lasts—that parents need not take for granted some of their babies will die. You get a completely different concept of what a child is.

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A cultured, sensitive, observant man is a pleasure to be with in any age.

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He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

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