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Jerry Pournelle Quotes: I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.
         

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.


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Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.



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Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.



A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.



One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.



Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.



And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.



That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.



We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.



The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.



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We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.





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All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.



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Jealousy is projected self-pity.



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The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.



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The world is full of beauty as other worlds above And if we did our duty it might be as full of love.



Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.

Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.



Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.



It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.

It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.



Inventors don't have time for married life.

Inventors don't have time for married life.



However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.




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