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We have a saying, we Gharm. A man who claims to carry the truth, carries an empty sack.

To Sylvan truth was truth and all else was black heresy, though on occasion he had the very human difficulty of deciding which was which.

Don’t waste your time on penitence or guilt. Solving the problem is better!

Duty was simply not enough. There had to be more than that!

I’m trying to decide whether we can afford to be merciful. The Arbai were merciful, but when confronted with evil, mercy becomes an evil.

She was trying to feel philosophical about dying, not managing it, trying not to be frightened, and not managing that, either.

All kids think some other family is perfect.

Too good is good for nothing.

They haven’t learned that being penitent sometimes does no good at all.

He did a lot of disputation and he always raised his voice when his logic was weak.

“I don’t have much confidence,” she said. “A lot of what I’ve been taught isn’t making sense.”

“That’s the nature of teaching. Something happens, and intelligence first apprehends it, then makes up a rule about it, then tries to pass the rule along. Very small beings invariably operate in that way. However, by the time the information is passed on, new things are happening that the old rule doesn’t fit. Eventually intelligence learns to stop making rules and understand the flow.”

History upon Terra tells us what horrors follow upon religious mandates of unlimited reproduction.