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I take small interest in politics, he said. The subject repels me.

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Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.

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It saddened him that military technology was so much more advanced than he'd ever imagined.

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What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? We're fucked, that's what.

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Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.

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A faded black T-shirt with a soaring penguin and the slogan 'Where do you want to come from today?'

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Outer space is, fundamentally, familiar. It's only the night sky, without the earth beneath your feet.

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All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

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Anyway... I find what you write interesting.
That's what people usually say when they disagree with it.

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I'm sure they'll come up with all kinds of rationalizations, if the human precedent is anything to go by.

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The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

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She knew about these asteroids, of course. It was because she had classified them in the wrong mental category that she hadn't thought of them.

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Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

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For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

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