Gordon R. Dickson quotes
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“Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.”
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“Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live.”
-- Gordon R. DicksonSource : Gordon R. Dickson (1963). “No Room for Man”, New York : MacFadden-Bartell Corporation
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“A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.”
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“A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.”
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“Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.”
-- Gordon R. Dickson
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“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
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Source : A. C. Grayling (2009). “Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values”, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.97, Thomas Nelson Inc
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