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I am a peaceful man, captain. I rely more on my cerebral cortex than my guns. - Poul Anderson
" "I am a peaceful man, captain. I rely more on my cerebral cortex than my guns.
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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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A. A. Craig
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Poul William Anderson
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Winston P. Sanders
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Michael Karageorge
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Petronius Arbiter Kingsley
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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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Collectively as well as individually, man is never going to find perfection. Some societies he builds may work better, for the majority anyhow, than others. But all of them will have their built-in drawbacks. Their affairs will always be conducted with a high irreducible minimum of inefficiency. Read: sentimentalism, magical thinking, shortsightedness, vanity, greed, envy, hate, fear – not because we are evil but because we are mortal.
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