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The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. - Robert A. Heinlein
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Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand; The Trojan Hearse; A Deadly Shade of Gold; Conjure Wife; Rosemary's Baby; Silverlock; King Conan. He'd packed books not to entertain, nor even to illustrate philosophies of life, but to rebuild civilization.
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Think of it as evolution in action.
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God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.
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Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
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Part of being a coward is wanting security.
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Do you know what it's like to be suddenly poor and not know how to live poor?
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There is no turning away from knowledge.
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Do you believe in hunches?""Neither do I. Except just this once."
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The moral of this story is, anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.
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Does it help you to know that you've ruined my day?""It does, yes."
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Just take my word for it, will you? Assume I'm a genius.
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Was he deadpan because he didn't care anymore? How much boredom can you meet in three hundred years?
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Any time seems long when you need to make a decision but can't.
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Do you like strange places and faraway people--or vice versa?""Both."
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I had to grin. Morris was shocked and horrified. I'd shown him a brand new sin.
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A species that can't develop spaceflight is no better than animals.
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When you trade among the stars, there is no repeat business.
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Stupidity is always a capital crime.
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The morning was blacker than the inside of a smoker's lungs.
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Peace isn't a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.
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That's impossible. Isn't it? Carlos?"Carlos' mouth twisted. "Not if it's being done."
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In a universe the size of ours almost anything that can happen, will.
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Gambling was safer than war. More fun, too. Best of all, it gave him better odds.
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I'd thought my way into this mess. I should be able to think my way out, shouldn't I?
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A sufficiently intelligent being will look about her, solve all questions, then cease activity.
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Time is a one-way street with no parking spaces. You just have to keep going.
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You don't stop planning just because there's no hope.
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There aren't many prizes for second place in battle.
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Infantry, which means killing on foot and doesn't have anything to do with children.
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It doesn't take brains to mate!
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A machine has no mind to read; you never know when it's going to betray you--
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With all its horrors and all its failures, life was bearable where there were hot showers.
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I don't doubt you're serious," he said wonderingly. "What I doubt is your sanity."
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Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.
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Fear is the brother of hate.
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The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
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The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
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Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.
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The majority is always sane.
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Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.
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