"Below the 40th latitude there is no law;……" — Kim Stanley
"Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever."
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41 Quotes by Kim Stanley
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You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
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Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they…
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Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
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The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a,…
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Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every…
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The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic…
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When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell…
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It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.
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Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.
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An excess of reason is itself a form of madness
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It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it…
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