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B. Ross Ashley
redlion at sff.net
Fri Jul 7 15:23:08 BST 2006
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:12:15 -0400, Marna Nightingale <marna at marna.ca>
wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Marna Nightingale wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>"If this is what comes of reading Hegel, in the future I shall stick to David
>>>>Hume."
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alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca wrote:
>> I love it. Where *does* it come from?
>
>
> It is probably not an undue spoiler to observe the the speaker has iirc
> just been shot in the shoulder. :)
> Marna.
Yup, and it's a lovely book!
The one I tend to use besides this one is from Eric Flint's _Mother of Demons_:
"You cannot conquer evil, Nukurren. Evil is not a thing from beyond, a foe to be
vanquished. It is a thing which emerges from within the life of a people. It can
only be changed, by changing that life."
--
B. Ross Ashley
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where I got everything right." Sulien, in _The King's Name_, by Jo Walton
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