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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.
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Greg Bear |
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When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.
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Greg Bear |
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I will learn by screwing up.
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learning
success-strategies
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Greg Bear |
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Mother Nature is a bitch.
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Greg Bear |
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Dogs could mellow a wild boy, or open up a shy one.
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Greg Bear |
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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.
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Greg Bear |
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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.
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sharper
stronger
superior
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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.
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Greg Bear |
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Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.
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Greg Bear |
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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.
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Greg Bear |
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Robert's problem was familiar to Aquinas. He called it ignorantia affectata, cultivated ignorance.
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Greg Bear |
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Equal in law is not equal in nature.
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Greg Bear |
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You are what you leave behind.
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Greg Bear |
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You seem to like helping, taking care of people," he said. "That is admirable." "You enjoy being nurtured?" "Well, that isn't all you promise. When you touch me, I feel a fire at my center. You want me to grow and find my true story, my purpose. You seem to want to be there when I see new things. You want to share and enjoy my discoveries."
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lovers
humour
love
nurturing
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Greg Bear |
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All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,
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Greg Bear |
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You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.
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Greg Bear |
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The battle was over. There were no victors.
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Greg Bear |
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To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.
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Greg Bear |
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We've been fighting for so long, we've begun to lose ourselves. And it's getting worse.
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Greg Bear |
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There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.
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Greg Bear |
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Around her gulps of water, she repeated her prayer, until the monotony and futility silenced her.
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Greg Bear |
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Can't own a woman, Mike. Wonderful companions, can't own them.
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Greg Bear |
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That's insane," Lanier said."Not very. It's politics."
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Greg Bear |
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Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
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Greg Bear |
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Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.
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Greg Bear |
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Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.
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Greg Bear |
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I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so goddamned stupid.
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Greg Bear |