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I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.
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Stupidity is always a capital crime.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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19) Think before you make the coward's choice. Old age is not for sissies.
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To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
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8) History never repeats itself.
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Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.
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3) Stories to end all stories on a given topic, don't.
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3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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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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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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Jesus Pietro was worried. The Sons of Earth, if they got this far, would go straight to the vivarium to free their compatriots. But if Matthew Keller was his own agent... If the ghost of Alpha Plateau was not a rebel, but a thing with its own unpredictable purpose... Jesus Pietro worried.
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I love superconductors.
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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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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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17) No technique works if it isn't used.
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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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The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
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