The FDA just ordered them off the market. The glaze is supposed to be poison–provided you drink at least forty cups of tea out of one of them every day of your life for twenty years.
I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Be silent and safe – silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
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John Boyle OReilly
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or...
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John Stuart Mill
Brianna dropped the skateboard in front of Sam. "Don't worry: I won't let you fall off." "Yeah? Then why did you bring the helmet?" Brianna tossed it to him. "In case you fall off.
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Michael Grant
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Unknown
More Quotes By Frederik Pohl
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were not. It made a barrier. What they wanted to talk about were things they had eaten, touched, or done. What I wanted to talk about...
I was worried about sex, " he went on. "But you know what, Sulie? It's like being told I can't have any caviar for the next couple years. I don't even like caviar. And when you come right down to it, I don't want sex...
I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.
They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.
