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Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.

~ Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson Motivational Overcoming

It was the centuries-old battle of man to keep his race alive and push forward into the future, the ceaseless, furious struggle of that beastlike, god-like—primitive, sophisticated—savage and civilized—composite organism that was the human race fighting to endure and push onward. Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.

~ Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson Humanity Struggle

Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live.

~ Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson Future Science Fiction Visionary

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

~ Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson Advice Frame On The Wall People

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

~ Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson Hubris Vice Virtue

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

~ Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson Derision Laughter

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time’s worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

~ Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson Military Tactics War Weapons

Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

~ Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson Defeat Facts Success Truth
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