Psi 20 Quotes

Mercants aren't known to be assassins." "Could be because we're very, very good at it

Mercants have a gift for obsession. It's led to prison sentences, epic heroism, great works of art and madhouses. Choose your path.

Trust is a fragile glass bird. Drop it once, and it will shatter into shards innumerable.

1. a.Never throw shit at an armed man. b.Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man. 2.Never fire a laser at a mirror. 3.Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun. 4.F × S = k. The product of Freedom and Security is a constant. To gain more freedom of thought and/or action, you must give up some security, and vice versa. 5.Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless. 6.It is easier to destroy than create. 7.Any damn fool can predict the past. 8.History never repeats itself. 9.Ethics change with technology. 10.There Ain't No Justice. (often abbreviated to TANJ) 11.Anarchy is the least stable of social structures. It falls apart at a touch. 12.There is a time and place for tact. And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced. 13.The ways of being human are bounded but infinite. 14.The world's dullest subjects, in order: a.Somebody else's diet. b.How to make money for a worthy cause. c.The Kardashians. 15.The only universal message in science fiction: There exist minds that think as well as you do, but differently. Niven's corollary: The gene-tampered turkey you're talking to isn't necessarily one of them. 16.Fuzzy Pink Niven's Law: Never waste calories. 17.There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it. in variant form in Fallen Angels as "Niven's Law: No cause is so noble that it won't attract fuggheads." 18.No technique works if it isn't used. 19.Not responsible for advice not taken. 20.Old age is not for sissies.

I don't want visitors." "We're not visitors. We're bears.

To say Mercants are a tight-knit unit is a slight understatement. More correct would be to say that if the consider you a threat to one of their own, they will cut out your liver, fry it in front of you, then offer it to you with a side dish of poison of choice.

Her. He was calling her ferocious.

Rats exert roughly 150kg of biting force per square centimetre, which equates to around 2,000 p.s.i. For context, this is more powerful (relative to body weight) than a hyena, grizzly bear, bull shark or hippopotamus, and roughly 20 times the bite of a human.

Don’t give the monsters the satisfaction of seeing you give up.

Let your bond blaze like a candle in the dark.

In saving his life, she'd gained herself a Mercant knight who would always, always be in her corner.

Never again would anyone hurt or hunt Canto's 3K.

Pearce’s accuracy was 30 percent, scoring 558 hits when 370 were expected by chance, a full 10 percent above the expected 20 percent. The odds against this occurring by chance are ten thousand to one. At the time, many intellectuals and philosophers considered Rhine’s work decisive in favor of psi. It was accepted to be proven. However, old paradigms do not fall so easily. Enter the debunkers…

photosystem I (PSI) and the other as photosystem II (PSII). They are coupled together in what is commonly called the Z-scheme,