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“Hoddan felt the anger any man feels when he sees betrayal of that honor a competent machine represents.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 7

“He was in a state of doubt which passed very well for modesty.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 10

““Do you realize,” he asked, “that the whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death? That a culture in which nothing unexpected ever happens is in what is called its Golden Age? That when nobody can even imagine anything happening unexpectedly, that they later fondly refer to that period as the Good Old Days?”
“I hadn’t thought of it in just those words, sir—”
“It is one of the most-avoided facts of life,” said the ambassador. “Government, in the local or planetary sense of the word, is an organization for the suppression of adventure. Taxes are, in part, the insurance premiums one pays for protection against the unpredictable.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 2

“Twilight remained, a fairy half-light in which all things looked much more charming than they really were.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 7

“He needed some rather extensive changes in the relationship of the cosmos to himself.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 7

“The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.”

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Murray Leinster

(p. 115 in The Hugo Winners vol. 1 edited by Isaac Asimov).
Short fiction, Exploration Team (1956)

“Hoddan fumbled for her meaning. It wasn’t quite an apology for trying to get him killed. But at least it was a disclaimer of future intentions in that direction.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 12

“Eminent men were called on to take command and arrange suitable measures. They immediately acted as eminent men so often do; the took action to retain their eminence. Their first instinct is caution. When a man is important enough, it does not matter if he never does anything. It is only required of him that he do nothing wrong. Eminent figures all over the world prepared to do nothing wrong. They were not so concerned to do anything right.”

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Murray Leinster livre The Wailing Asteroid

Source: The Wailing Asteroid (1960), Chapter 3

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