It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it.
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Zum Autor"You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."
"«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.»«You have lived well,» the Alien said."
"Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of this: that every word, every act of our Art is said and is done either for good, or for evil. Before you speak or do you must know the price that is to pay!"
"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women."
"It's a queer business, making oneself blind."
"Age and illness made one a dualist."