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Nexus (Nexus, #1) QUOTES

Nexus (Nexus, #1) QUOTES

1 " Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

2 " To understand the future course of this war, one need only look at the history of the War on Drugs and the War on Terror. Like those two manufactured "wars", this one will be never-ending, freedom-destroying, counterproductive, and ultimately understood to have caused far more damage than the supposed threat it was aimed at ever could have. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

3 " We’re all born dying, someone had said. What matters is only how we spend the instant we’re given. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

4 " We think of ourselves as individuals, but all that we have accomplished, and all that we will accomplish, is the result of groups of humans cooperating. Those groups are organisms in their own rights. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

5 " Buddhism suits me 'cuz nobody's in charge. Nobody's decidin' for me if I'm good or bad, goin' to heaven or hell. It's just me workin' on my head, you workin' your head, the friggin' Dalai Lama workin' on his head. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

6 " who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

7 " To understand a thing is to gain the power to change it.  "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

8 " I think it's all that's holding me together," Kade said. "Then perhaps you should fall apart," Ananda replied. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

9 " He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

10 " It did something to the temporal lobe, one of the circuits involved in religious experience. It was supposed to put people closer to God. It did that. It also made them slaves. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

11 " We think of ourselves as individuals, but all that we have accomplished, and all that we will accomplish, is the result of groups of humans cooperating. Those groups are organisms in their own rights. We are their components.” He’s "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

12 " In seeking to uncover the causes of an event, ask yourself: who stands to benefit from it? "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

13 " What I mean is that we all exists as parts of groups and collectives larger than ourselves. Tribes. Communities. Organizations. Institutions. Families. Nations. We think of ourselves as individuals, but all that we have accomplished, and all that we will accomplish, is the result of groups of humans cooperating. Those groups are organisms in their own rights. We are their components. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

14 " Do you know the bodhisattva vow?” Ananda asked. Kade shook his head. “It’s from the Mahāyāna school of Buddhism,” Ananda said, “different than my own, but still beautiful. The most basic expression of it is ‘May I attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings.’ It’s a pledge to keep being reborn into the material world of suffering, to put nirvana off indefinitely, until all beings in the universe have attained enlightenment and can also enter nirvana. It’s perhaps the ultimate vow of placing others before oneself. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

15 " Like Einstein, Kade thought. The problems we currently face can’t be solved at the level of thinking that created them. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

16 " We must all act within the choices we are given. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

17 " Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “Those who would sacrifice essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

18 " CYGNUS EXPRESS – A PROJECT ODYSSEUS FUNDRAISER Vastness of space, planets orbiting distant suns, partygoers in gleaming imitations of vacuum suits, bleeping sound of contact through the static of cosmic background radiation, overlaid with driving trance rhythm. Frances shrugged. Damn, she felt good pressed against him. “In space,” she said, “no one can hear you dance.” Kade shrugged. “Next. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

19 " Lightning flashed off to the east. It struck somewhere out beyond the city, flickered for a moment, lit up the sky. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)

20 " Kade’s own room was small but nice, with a view of Bangkok’s neon-lit downtown. "

― Ramez Naam , Nexus (Nexus, #1)