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Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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Anarchy is the least stable of social structures.
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Stories to end all stories on a given topic, don't.
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The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
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Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.
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Writers who write for other writers should write letters.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.
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Think before you make the coward's choice. Old age is not for sissies.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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A machine has no mind to read; you never know when it's going to betray you—
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To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
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The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
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In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.
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Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.
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There is a time and place for tact.
And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced.
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And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
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Never throw shit at an armed man. Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.
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That's the thing about people who think they hate computers … What they really hate are lousy programmers.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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We've fallen way behind. Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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Never be embarrassed or ashamed about anything you choose to write. (Think of this before you send it to a market)
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It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.
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The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
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Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts.
It would require brand new techniques.
Grimly he set out to evolve them.
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