Larry Niven Quotes
Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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I just want to have a nice, happy life.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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The media is controlled.
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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
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I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
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All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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I plunged in, and set up a Twitter account. My first problem was that there were already two Margaret Atwoods on Twitter, one of them with my picture. This grew; I gave commands; then all other Margaret Atwoods stopped together. I like to think they were sent to a nunnery, but in any case they disappeared. The Twitterpolice had got them. I felt a bit guilty.
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His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.
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The battle sunk towards the horizon. Presently it would be gone, leaving a sky unsullied by human affairs.
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Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.
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People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.
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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
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Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.
