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We are born by accident into a purely random universe.
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I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.
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Anything big and strange always upsets the people in power.
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I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?
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Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.
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Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.
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Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I'll keep that in mind. I'll be of good cheer.
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He didn't have to observe the niceties of etiquette when talking to a computer.
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The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant.
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It's not a philosophy, Mr. Nichols. It's an accommodation to the nature of reality.
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One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
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Gottfried, like any true dictator, liked to surround himself with bland obliging ciphers.
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It is my craft and my science to Watch. It is yours to jeer. Each of us to our specialty.
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Moas aren't very bright, Gracchus answers. That's one good reason why they became extinct.
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Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.
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Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.
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She loaned him books. Worlds were revealed to him: worlds piled on worlds, worlds without end.
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Political theorists tend to swallow their theories when forced back on pragmatic measures of survival.
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When you poison a man in order to sell him the antidote, you don't boast about it afterward to the victim!
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Research, he calls it. Research. Pitkin sneered. Junkie!
Schwartz matched him sneer for sneer. Economist!
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You can make no meaningful evaluations of the universe without the confidence that you are seeing it clearly.
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He did not consider the possibility of his own death. At his age, death was still something that happened to other people.
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So it is with all the great leaders: the commodity they have to sell is personality. Mere ideas can be left to lesser men.
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Forget it. No, don't forget it. Don't forget anything. Take a lesson from it: collect all the data before shouting nonsense.
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Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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January 15, 1935
(age 89)
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