"Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master."

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Source : "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire, 1958.

H. Beam Piper

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“You know, most men would get discouraged by now. Fortunately for you, I am not most men!”
“If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.”

Source : "Nigerian authors condemn country's new anti-gay law" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2014.
“We have been so impressed with the Pocket Radar that it has become the only radar gun we use for coaching and scouting.”
“The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks know that I know nothing.”
“Every team is beatable, you know.”
“If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 25, 2012
“Never say there’s no hope. Hope disappears only when you say there’s no hope.”
“No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe something based on experiment but the experimenter knows the many little things that could have gone wrong in the experiment. For this reason the discoverer of a new fact seldom feels quite so confident of it as others do. On the other hand other people are usually critical of an hypothesis, whereas the originator identifies himself with it and is liable to become devoted to it.”

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