Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.
Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles
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Tahereh Mafi
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
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Lois Lowry
...they come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead( The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk,...
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Mira Grant
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much kids long to see themselves in stories. To see their identities and perspectives–their avatars–on the page. Not as issues to be addressed or...
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Paolo Bacigalupi
More Quotes By David Marusek
Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.
What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods.
When General Genius built the first mentar [Artificial Intelligence] mind in the last half of the twenty-first century, it based its design on the only proven conscious material then known, namely, our brains. Specifically, the complex structure of our synaptic network. Scientists substituted an electrochemical...
Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.
In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.
