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Генри Бим Пайпер — американский писатель-фантаст. Наиболее известный и обширный вклад — цикл «История терранского человечества». Г. Бим Пайпер — имя, которым писатель подписывал свои произведения, однако его настоящее имя точно не известно. По некоторым источникам, Пайпера звали Гораций, а не Генри, также можно найти другую дату смерти писателя. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Март 1904 – 4. Ноябрь 1964
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“Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.”

A Slave is a Slave (1962)
Контексте: Oh, he won't think of it in those terms. He'll be preventing me from sabotaging the Emancipation. He doesn't want to wait three generations; he wants to free them at once. Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.

“Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.”

A Slave is a Slave (1962)
Контексте: Count Erskyll said nothing for a moment. He was opposed to the use of force. Force, he believed, was the last resort of incompetence; he had said so frequently enough since this operation had begun. Of course, he was absolutely right, though not in the way he meant. Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.