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Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.
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One of the CNN guys was literally yelling. How can you say that? It's too dangerous for us? We still have people in Syria!
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If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.
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Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.
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He told me once about the secret of life. You know what it is?" "I'm not sure what George thinks it is." "It's having lunch with friends.
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Squeej? What kind of name was that for a pilot?
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The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.
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The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.
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Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.
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Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?
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If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.
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So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.
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It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.
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The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
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Live from Babylon and Ur, From Athens and Alexandria and Rome, The voices of a thousand generations, Press us, Urge us on-.
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Time is like a river. As soon as a thing is seen, it is carried away and another takes its place, and then that other is carried away also.
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A friend is a second self.
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An ocean with a single shore gets little traffic.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?
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Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.
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Fear the assassin who waits in the lonely passages of the heart.
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Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
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The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.
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But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.
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If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.
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Those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.
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The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.
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If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
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Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.
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Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually we don't like it very much.
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Drink deep the cup of life; take it's dark wine into your soul. For it passes round the table only once.
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Unfortunately," he said, "we have short memories. Most heroes are forgotten by the next news cycle.
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So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.
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You notice, by the way, that we never have a meeting with an alien. It's always an encounter.
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The truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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I was thinking how much trouble people get into because they can't keep their mouths shut.
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He's so obsessed with trying to analyze the architecture
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