David Brin Quotes
What kind of man takes a live bomb across the seas in order to blow up other people? People who have mothers and lovers and children, just like him?Probably either a professional or a patriot, Alex thought. Or, worse, both.
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Some smart moves were little more than nicely padded traps.
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The good side of the world media village was the sense it gave ten billion that each of them had at least some small connection with the whole. The bad side was that no one ever encountered anything, anymore, that was completely new.
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You can’t fight biology. Only push at the rules, here and there.
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The notions she fought with needed more than the simple algebra she’d been grudgingly taught at Lamai Hold. More and more she resented how they had robbed her of this, arguably her one talent, driving her from math and other abstractions by the simple expedient of making them seem boring.
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On this occasion, despite the wind and sparkling stars, they looked just like huge chunks of stone, pathetically chiseled by desperate folk to resemble stern gods. People did bizarre things when they were afraid...as most men and women had been for nearly all the time since the species evolved.
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It was silly to suppose that trials only hardened men, automatically making them wise. He knew many who were stupid, arrogant, and mean, in spite of having suffered.
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I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.
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He managed to lie by implication while speaking words that were the literal truth, a skill he had grown good at, if not proud of.
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The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.
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There’s no urgency, a third voice urged, pleading compromise. No duty calls. Hold onto the illusion a little longer.So she tried to go on pretending. After all, can’t believing sometimes make dreams come true?No, it can’t. Besides, you're awake now.
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Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so!
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You don’t have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!
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