Jack McDevitt Quotes
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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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Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.
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Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.
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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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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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And because she so desperately wanted it to be true, she knew she could not manage an objective judgment.
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Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.
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Prudence, and experience, suggested she expect the worst.
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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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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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Cities have a social utility, if only as places to get away from.
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'Sometimes,' he said, 'I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.'
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'Alyx,' she said, 'you're going to be a legend.''I already am, Captain,' she said.
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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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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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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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The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
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The queen of virtues is the recognition of one’s own flaws.