Whipping Star
A BuSab agent must begin by learning the linguistic modes and action limits
(usually self-imposed) of the societies he treats. The agent seeks data on
the functional relationship which drive from our common universe and which
arise from interdependencies. Such interdependencies are the frequent first
victims of word-illusions. Societies based on ignorance of original
interdependencies come sooner or later to stalemate. Too long frozen, such
societies die.
--BuSab Manual
A Bureau is a life form and Bureaucrat one of its cells. That analogy
teaches us which are the more important cells, which in greatest peril,
which most easily replaced, and how easy it is to be mediocre.
--Later writings of Bildoon IV
Language is a kind of code dependent upon the life rhythms of the species
which originated the language. Unless you learn those rhythms, the code
remains mostly unintelligible.
--BuSab Manual
The play of words can lead to certain expectations which life is unable
to match. The is a source of much insanity and other forms of unhappiness.
--Wreave Saying
All definitions, no matter the language, should be considered
probationary.
--The Caleban Question by Dwel Hartavid
Never underestimate the power of wishful thinking of filter what the eye
see and what the ears hear.
--The Abnethe Case, BuSab Private Files
There is no such thing as pure objectivity.
--Gowachin Aphorism
Facts can be whatever you want them to be. This is the lesson of
relativity.
--BuSab Manual
Where is the weapon with which I enforce your bondage? You give it to me
every time you time you open your mouth.
--Lactac Riddle
It is because you speak to me that I do not believe in you.
--Quoted from the Caleban
He was the kind of man who created his own death.
--Epitaph for Ailchino Furuneo
Body jargon hormone squirts, these begin to get at communication.
--Culture Lag, an unpublished work by Jorj X. Mckie
You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is
to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.
--BuSab Manual
It is impossible to see any absolute through a screen of interpreters.
--Wreave Saying
Learning a language represents training in the delusion of that language.
--Gowachin Aphorism
A basic requirement for BuSab agents is, Perhaps, that we make the right
mistakes.
--McKie's commentary on Furuneo BuSab Private files
If you say, "I understand." what have you done? You made a value
Judgment.
--Lactac Riddle
All the wisdom of the universe cannot match the alert willingness to
dodge a violent blow.
--Ancient Folk Saying
One species can, all by itself, produce infinite varieties of
experiences. The interaction between many species creates the illusion that
infinity has been enlarged by several orders magnitude.
--The Caleban Question by Dwel Hartavid
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support
arguments founded in wishful thinking.
--from The Wreace Commentary
If you believe yourself sufficiently hungry, you will eat your own
thoughts.
--A Palenki Saying
No language has ever really come to grips with temporal relationships.
--A Gowachin Opinion
Delusions demand reflex reactions (as though they had autonomic roots)
where doubts and questioning not only aren't required, but are actively
resisted.
--BuSab Manual
Taken in isolated tandem, Government and Justice are mutually exclusive.
There must be a third force at work for any society to achieve both
government and justice. This is why the Bureau of Sabotage sometimes is
called "The Third Force."
--from an elementary Textbook
Any conversations a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to
the ears, but that is not necessarily a measure of their importance.
--Lactac Commentary
The most common use of abstraction is to conceal contradictions. It must
be noted that that abstracting process has been demonstrated to be infinite.
--Culture Lag, an unpublished work by Jorj X. McKie
The value of self government at an individual level cannot be
overestimated.
--BuSab Manual
If words are your symbols of reality, you live in a dream world.
--Wreave Saying