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1 " Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. "
― Greg Bear
2 " Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy. "
3 " I will learn by screwing up. "
― Greg Bear , Hull Zero Three
4 " Oh, there will still be deception. The fresh crew will emerge as adults, will have memories of past training and lives. Our stories, our lives, will go on. I refuse to allow that love to die, just because it was never real. "
5 " Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze. "
― Greg Bear , Blood Music
6 " It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you. "
7 " Mother Nature is a bitch. "
― Greg Bear , Darwin's Children (Darwin's Radio #2)
8 " In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite. "
― Greg Bear , City at the End of Time
9 " He had performed this ritual before, getting into trouble and then coming to his mother, uneasy and uncertain, not sure precisely what sort of trouble he was in. With uncanny regularity, she had seemed to jump onto a higher plane of reasoning and identify his problems, laying them out for him so they became unavoidable. This was not a service that made him love her any more, but it did make her invaluable to him. "
10 " poring "
― Greg Bear , Moving Mars (Queen of Angels, #3)
11 " Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches. "
12 " When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become. "
― Greg Bear , Halo: Primordium
13 " Dogs could mellow a wild boy, or open up a shy one. "
― Greg Bear , The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
14 " We've been sitting in our tree chirping like foolish birds for over a century now, wondering why no other birds answered. The galactic skies are full of hawks, that's why. Planetisms that don't know enough to keep quiet, get eaten. "
15 " To see the awful things is to see life as it really is. It makes you sharper, stronger, superior. You can stand it when others cannot. "
― Greg Bear , Quantico
16 " But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs. "
17 " They’re trying to understand what space is. That’s tough for them. They break distances down into concentrations of chemicals. For them, space is a range of taste intensities. "
18 " Robert’s problem was familiar to Aquinas. He called it ignorantia affectata, cultivated ignorance. "
19 " Equal in law is not equal in nature. "
20 " You are what you leave behind. "
