Jack McDevitt Quotes
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'I can’t imagine,' said Dupre, 'a better way to unnerve people than to tell them there’s no cause for alarm.'
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He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.
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Embrace your life, find what it is that you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived.
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Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.
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Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.
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(He was) tall and lean, an aristocrat by inclination, born into money and influence and never recovered.
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And because she so desperately wanted it to be true, she knew she could not manage an objective judgment.
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The only people he knew of who would have leveled material advantage so that no one had any were of course those who had none to start with.
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Ev was a careful man, a model of caution. He took pride in not committing to a view until all the facts were in. Which meant, of course, that he was never quite on board. Or in opposition.
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Prudence, and experience, suggested she expect the worst.
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Cities have a social utility, if only as places to get away from.
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'Alyx,' she said, 'you're going to be a legend.''I already am, Captain,' she said.
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Well, kids are never much on history. Nor for that matter was anybody else. It had been MacAllister’s experience that most people think anything that happened before they were born didn’t count for a whole lot.
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'Sometimes,' he said, 'I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.'
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One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?
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We’re talking about something we all want very much to find. And that automatically makes Ed’s conclusions suspect.
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The queen of virtues is the recognition of one’s own flaws.
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The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.