The best foundation that a decision is ever allowed is our fallible assessment of the probabilities. - Poul Anderson

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The best foundation that a decision is ever allowed is our fallible assessment of the probabilities.

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About Poul Anderson

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was a prominent American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy.

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Birth Name: Poul William Anderson
Alternative Names: Winston P. Sanders A. A. Craig Michael Karageorge Petronius Arbiter Kingsley P. A. Kingsley
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Everard was not so sure; he had seen enough human misery in all the ages. You got case-hardened after a while, but down underneath, when a peasant stared at you with sick brutalized eyes, or a soldier screamed with a pike through him, or a city went up in radioactive flame, something wept. He could understand the fanatics who had tried to change events. It was only that their work was so unlikely to make anything better...

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