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
More Quotes By Charles Stross
Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in...
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.
I am me and I have been Juliette and both of us have dreamed this dream repeatedly. And what makes this dream so unfortunate is that it is a true thing that happened to someone else ... who is both of us.
