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If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.
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To abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.
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Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.
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Abbot Zerchi smiled thinly. 'You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.'
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Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America — burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion, he thought.
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That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
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There is a difference between tragedy and blind brutal calamity. Tragedy has meaning, and there is dignity in it. Tragedy stands with its shoulders stiff and proud. But there is no meaning, no dignity, no fulfillment, in the death of a child.
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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.
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Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Born:
January 23, 1923
Died:
January 9, 1996
(aged 72)
Bio:
Walter Michael Miller, Jr. was an American science fiction writer. Today he is primarily known for A Canticle for Leibowitz, the only novel he published in his lifetime. Prior to its publication he was a prolific writer of short stories.
Known for:
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1980)
Conditionally Human (1962)
Death of a Spaceman
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