Jack McDevitt Short Quotes

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Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

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Prudence, and experience, suggested she expect the worst.

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The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

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Maybe the universe doesn't approve of places like New York.

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The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.

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How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

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Ah, Lord, if I doubt You, it is perhaps because You hide Yourself so well.

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Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

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There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

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It had been his experience that the worst cynics all started out as idealists.

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Alyx, she said, you're going to be a legend.
I already am, Captain, she said.

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Sometimes, he said, I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.

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Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.

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The idiots always rose to the top and made policy.
It explained a lot of things.

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Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

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Politicians always seemed to be willing to sacrifice the general welfare to win votes.

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If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

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Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.

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Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.

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Technology is dangerous.
How do you mean?
It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.

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Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

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Yes, it was not journalism's finest hour. But, MacAllister often argued, it never had been.

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He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.

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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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He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.

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The reality is, we don't want our kids to be smart. We want them to be like us. Only more so.

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Henry had been around long enough to know better than to disagree. But he forgot to implement.

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If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

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We are not a debating club, Franklin said. Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.

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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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