Power is like matter, it has gravity, it clumps and then starts to draw more into itself. - Kim Stanley Robinson

When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

Dominance hierarchies had underlain every system ever realized so far, but at the same time democratic values had been always a hope and a goal, expressed in every primate’s sense of self, and resentment of hierarchies that after all had to be imposed, by force.

“But that may be Freudianism.”
“In other words something like the theory of phlogiston.”
She laughed. “Exactly.”