There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.
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Laurell K. Hamilton
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
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Frederik Pohl
Science is the desperate effort to catch up with the 13.8 billion year-old facts (give or take an eon or two).
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Torin Sarasas
Science is about the desperate effort to catch up with the 13.7 billion year-old facts (give or take an eon or two).
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Torin Sarasas
His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal or human stirred, but not many. There were few cries of pain or fear now. Mostly, it was eerily quiet. Even...
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Derek Donais
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History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?
Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and pebbles and rocks and iceballs and worlds and stars, all the unthinking galaxies and superclusters, wheeling through the oblivious time-haunted megaparsecs of the...
