Algis Budrys Quotes
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Never try to reason with a man who can see the blade swinging for his head.
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Always lobbying for his own emotions, he was the perfect man for a job the administration had tacitly committed to ineptitude.
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There are the people in this world who act, and the people who scheme. The ones who act get things done, and the ones who scheme try to take credit for it. You must know that as well as I do.
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A man is a phoenix, who must be reborn from his own ashes, for there is no other like him in the universe. If the wind stirs the ashes into a clumsy parody, then the phoenix is dead forever. Nothing we know of can bring you back.
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The universe has resources of death which we have barely begun to pick at
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You know, even more than playing chess, I dislike dealing with self-righteous chess players.
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There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculat
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That was the way things worked out: you got a certain fair share of good breaks from life, and you had no right to expect things your way every time.