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Perhaps your deficiency rests in the false assumption that you can order men to think and cooperate. This has been a failure of everything from religions to general staffs throughout history.

If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness--they cannkut work and their civilization collapses.

-A letter to CHOAM
Attributed to The Preacher

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

-The open-ended proof
From the Panoplia Prophetica

The one eyed field of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist.

-The Azhar Book; Shamra 1:4

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

-Law and Governance
The Spacing Guild Manual