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Red Mars (1992)
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The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.
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History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking — an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.
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Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
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They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them.
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Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.
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Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
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Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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March 23, 1952
(age 72)
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