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1 " The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. "
― Gregory Benford , Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy #1)
2 " But a lady forced is never a lady won "
3 " Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power. "
4 " To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain "
5 " Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes "
6 " Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information. "
7 " I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media. "
8 " Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name "
9 " Yet how could the Empire possibly have kept itself stable, using such crude creatures as humans? "
10 " If you think there is good in everybody, you haven’t met everybody. "
11 " Sometimes being human is harder than it looks. "
12 " Because the desire to possess the other is... love "
13 " Decide had the same root as suicide and homicide. Decisions felt like little killings. Somebody lost. "
14 " Scientists require apparatus, but mathists splendidly require only writing tools and erasers. Better, philosophers do not even need erasers "
15 " factotums "
16 " Plaster holo screens against a mountain a full kilometer high, covering it until it glitters with a half million dancing images. Each holo used a quarter of a million pixels to shape its image, so the array musters immense representational power. Now compress those screens on a sheet of aluminum foil a millimeter thick. Crumple it. Stuff it into a grapefruit. That is the brain, a hundred billion neurons firing at varying intensities. Nature had accomplished that miracle, "
17 " suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism. "
18 " It is the triumph of reason to get on well with those who possess none, "
19 " When I was a child, I spoke as a child, thought as a child, behaved as a child. But when I became a woman, I put away manly things. "
20 " Sir, ‘pessimist’ is a term invented by optimists to describe realists. "
