"The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs……" — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
"The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples."
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22 Quotes by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
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One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
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Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But…
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Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly…
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I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
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That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
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It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
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The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
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Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery,…
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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became…
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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
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....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.
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