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81 " colonialism had never died, he used to declare, it just changed names and hired local cops. "
― Kim Stanley Robinson , Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
82 " It’s an empty niche, "
83 " When everyone was seated they took up the water pitchers and poured each other’s water, "
84 " we’re not here to, you know, reproduce Canada, for God’s sake! "
85 " an analogy rather than homology. What in the humanities they would call a heroic simile . . . or a metaphor, or some other kind of literary analogy. and analogies were mostly meaningless — a matter of phenotype rather than genotype. . . . Most of poetry and literature, really all the humanities, not to mention the social sciences, were phenotypic. . . . They added up to a huge compendium of meaningless analogies, which did not help to explain things, but only distorted perception of them. "
86 " The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring — that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage. "
87 " I was old the day I was born and I’ll be young the day I die. "
88 " America also stands for the melting pot. The idea of the melting pot. It was the place where people could come from anywhere and be a part of it. Such was the theory. There are lessons there for us. "
89 " Group dynamics were complex at best, even (he grimaced) unexplainable. "
90 " But that was life on Mars. They could be dead within minutes of any number of untoward events, as always. "
91 " One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable "