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"Facts" are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold
to be "True".
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+LEADERSHIP -- A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with
+autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to
+the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their
+own.
+ -- The HipCrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
+ (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p256-7)
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+"I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the
+symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the poeple
+I think of as victims when my guard drops. It's at least possible I'm
+even crazier than my fellows, whom I'm tempted to pity.
+"There seems only one thing to do, and that's get drunk"
+ -- Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar p390)
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+"You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember
+when you are old."
+ -- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar p413)