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We learn only to ask more questions.
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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
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There is never no hope left. Remember.
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Sometimes there's no point in giving up.
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The stars are far from eternal, but for man they might as well be.
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Brennan was an optimist. He didn't expect to be caught.
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The Perversity of the Universe Tends Toward a Maximum.
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And the air was full of the smell of burning bridges.
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Perhaps I was expecting too much.""Perhaps. We're all waiting as fast as we can."
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He liked everything about the university except the students.
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I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn't extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.
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As I said, it was inevitable, and I don't let laws of nature upset me.
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She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.
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Can you take orders?""Means yes."
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He felt good. At worst he had found a brand-new way to die.
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My self-centeredness is as human as your fanaticism.
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Too much imagination and I'll scare myself to death. Too little and I'll get myself killed.
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Civilization must have become awfully stereotyped before its collapse.
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The Gamers are so out of touch with reality that they were never considered a serious threat.
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It was a light, brief kiss, but it was less an ending than a promise, and he was happy.
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Massive success and massive inertia are two sides of a coin.
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She may look like a flake, but there's somebody home in that head.
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Two thousand years of civilization does not undo a million years of genetics.
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I want a scotch and water. If I can't have that, leave out the water.
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One bad, stupid decision could twist a life completely out of true.
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We don't break rules, but we bend the hell out of them.
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Whatever benefits voodoo conferred, intellectual agility was not among them.
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Nice to know that he had the gods on his side. Better make sure the lawyers were there, too.
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Sometimes you just have to be satisfied with what you are.
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Turning into a tradition, isn't it?""Around here, anything that happens twice is a tradition."
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The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of cause.
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Cooking was creation itself; It seemed to put the universe in perspective.
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Sex was a game nobody lost.
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What's intelligence for if not for seeking knowledge?
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It's a joy," she said, "watching you keep your mouth shut."
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2) Never fire a laser at a mirror.
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3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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5) Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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7) Any damn fool can predict the past.
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8) History never repeats itself.
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9) Ethics change with technology.
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10) Anarchy is the least stable of social structures.
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17) No technique works if it isn't used.
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19) Think before you make the coward's choice. Old age is not for sissies.
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