Devil's Harvest by Frank G. Slaughter

It was Indra's right to forget they had once been something more than friends. Purists might insist it was her duty.

"When the time is right, you'll return to your own people - unless you decide to become a citizen of the world."

"I was content to be a healer - to add a few footnotes to the story of man's rise from savagery.  My son has more ambitious dreams."

From the mission school, the hilarity of young voices suggested that the process of learning was still as painless as he remembered.

"To the Oriental mind, Chinese Communism is a disease that will run its course."

"No man with a job he's proud of will turn to Communism of his own free will."

"You've fought me a long time, my friend," he said.  "Today, you'll begin taking orders or I'll have your heart."

The First Philosophy

After Dachau by Daniel Quinn

After Dachau

"In a matter like this," the doctor said, "we're like people trapped in a cave.  We can sit here and starve to death or we can set off to explore the only corridor that presents itself and hope for the best."

The family didn't care for the name of the organization, and it was quite their usual practice to reshape reality to suit themselves.

I almost feel that someone who lives without an obsession has a poor sort of life.


"Some of this is true of Miss Hastings -- and some of it isn't.  There are some very fundamental things that exist in your heads that are missing in hers.  These are things you take for granted, that you hardly think about at all, and that may actually seem to you quite inconsequential -- almost not worth bothering about.

"The mongrel races!" the girls chorused triumphantly.

"Don't you ever try answering that question?"
"No, because maybe we couldn't stand hearing the answer.  We're afraid to know what's wrong with us."

We don't live in a world that is stagnant, as Mallory dubbed it.  We live in a world that is stable -- wonderfully stable, blessedly stable, as it deserves to be for the race that is the pinnacle of cosmic development.

"You don't seem upset to find out that someone cares, after all."
"Certainly not.  One can't learn anything from being right, you know."

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