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Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.
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But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you're fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.
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All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.
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Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.
It was in the blood, the flesh,
And now it is forever.
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You deserve whoever governs you … Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.
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When evenly matched, you cannot win against your enemy unless you understand them. And if you truly understand, why are you fighting and not talking?
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Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
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We must know our enemy, at least a little.
That's dangerous, Prufrax said, almost instinctively.
Yes, it is. What you know, you cannot hate.
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She saw that in all wars, the first stage was to dehumanize the enemy, reduce the enemy to a lower level so that he might be killed without compunction. When the enemy was not human to begin with, the task was easier.
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There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.
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The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.
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A Stellar's jay hopped along behind him, watching closely for dropped crumbs. It's dark, he told the bird. Go to sleep. I've eaten already. Where were you? No food now. The bird persisted, however; it knew humans were liars.
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We've been fighting for so long, we've begun to lose ourselves. And it's getting worse.
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To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.
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Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.
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All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,
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I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so goddamned stupid.
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Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
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There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive—and getting away with it—is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.
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We are born in ignorance, we die in ignorance, but maybe sometimes we learn something important and pass it along to others before we die. Or we write it down in a little book.
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Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.
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That's insane, Lanier said.
Not very. It's politics.
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Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization...
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The hardest theme in science fiction is that of the alien. The simplest solution of all is in fact quite profound—that the real difficulty lies not in understanding what is alien, but in understanding what is self. We are all aliens to each other, all different and divided. We are even aliens to ourselves at different stages of our lives. Do any of us remember precisely what it was like to be a baby?
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It's not impossible, Minelli said.
No, Edward admitted, but it's paranoid as hell, and that's the last thing we need, more fear.
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers
Greg Bear
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Born:
August 20, 1951
Died:
November 19, 2022
(aged 71)
Bio:
Gregory Dale "Greg" Bear was an American writer best known for science fiction. His work covered themes of galactic conflict, artificial universes, consciousness and cultural practices, and accelerated evolution.
Known for:
Blood Music (1985)
Darwin's Radio (1999)
The Forge of God (1987)
Anvil of Stars (1993)
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