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Jerry Pournelle Quotes: Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.
         

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.


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Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.



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A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.



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One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.



Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.



And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.



That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.



We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.



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The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.





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