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Larry Niven - Ringworld (1970)

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Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.

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Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.

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The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

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The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.

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To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

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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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One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

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In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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Born: April 30, 1938 (age 87)
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