Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations... I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be...
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Graham Greene
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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Abraham Lincoln
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
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Robert E. Howard
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
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Peter Stone
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.
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Bruce Sterling
More Quotes By Vernor Vinge
Here and there amidst the wreckage, she found advanced devices that more or less still functioned. With one exception, she’d revealed these to Johanna and then to Woodcarver, and–after it was founded–to the Executive Council. Ravna had kept her mouth shut about the surveillance suite;...
He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
