History Quote by Gordon R Dickson

“When you pick up an inch of the present to move it, you also pick up several thousand years of history.”

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Each man is a tool in his own hands. Mankind is a tool in its own hands.

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The soldier loves action; the politician the sound of his own voice.

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An ethical man survives in a bureaucratic post only if he puts his ethics in second place.

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Progress is made by the friction of opposites. The human creature climbs upward using first his right hand and then his left.

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