“There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.”

Source: The Languages of Pao (1958), Chapter 13 (p. 133)

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American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013

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