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| a6892ef | So it's democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends, and we out on this frontier outpost of the human world are perhaps better positioned than anyone else to see this and to fight this global battle, there's empty land here, there's scarce and nonrenewable resources here, and we're going to get swept up into the fight and we cannot choose not to be part of it, we are one of the prizes and our fate will be decided by what happens thro.. | revolution social-change | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| c311feb | There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in front of us. You have to have enough food to get through winter and spring. That's what it all comes down to. You have to live in a way that will gather enough food each fall to get through winter. | mystery spring winter | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 70d6f14 | You get what you give, and not only that, the giving is already the getting. So don't hold back. Don't look back or forward too much. Just be there where you are now. You're always only in the day you're in. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 4d10a3c | Capital itself is simply the useful residue of the work of past laborers, and it could belong to everyone as well as to a few. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 50b0679 | Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| afc6704 | We had a project on this trip back to the solar system, and that project was a labor of love. It absorbed all our operations entirely. It gave a meaning to our existence. And this is a very great gift; this, in the end, is what we think love gives, which is to say meaning. Because there is no very obvious meaning to be found in the universe, as far as we can tell. But a consciousness that cannot discern a meaning in existence is in trouble,.. | meaning-of-life purpose | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| e6cb3ce | It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along. | oratory pollitics promises rhetoric | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| b63710d | we all began female, and always had both sexual hormones in us. We always had masculine and feminine behavioral traits, which we had to train into gender-appropriate behaviors, even though they were traits that everyone has. We selectively encouraged or repressed traits, so for most of our history we have reinforced gender. But in our deepest selves we were always both. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 168ddb5 | It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 0cff640 | Of all the hatreds, none is greater than that of ignorance for knowledge. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 69c8c31 | Maybe that's why we've never heard a peep from anywhere. It's not just that the universe is too big. Which it is. That's the main reason. But then also, life is a planetary thing. It begins on a planet and is part of that planet. It's something that water planets do, maybe. But it develops to live where it is. So it can only live there, because it evolved to live there. That's its home. So, you know, Fermi's paradox has its answer, which is.. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| a65a7e4 | You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 9ec6283 | Every moment an epiphany arrives, and cleaves the mountain asunder. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 0000d80 | Slow is not the same as deficient. It's just slow. A glacier is slow too, but it gets there, and nothing stops it. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 6ecee0f | It was a whiny culture, we were finding. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 470febd | He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it. | David Guterson | ||
| a2859fd | Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you're one of the obliterated. | David Guterson | ||
| f824a0f | For them it might stave off what he could not help but see with clarity: that the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty. | David Guterson | ||
| 60a1f9a | I think this is an alarming trend, Bethany, this whole 'passionate' thing. I'm guessing it started about four years ago, and it's driving me nuts. Let's be practical: Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about twenty million people foraging for roots and grubs. [...] My hunch is that there was some self-help bestseller a few years back that told people to fo.. | life passion wisdom | Douglas Coupland | |
| 77e1da9 | Abe said something interesting. He said that because everyone's so poor these days, the '90s will be a decade with no architectural legacy or style- everyone's too poor to put up new buildings. He said that code is the architecture of the '90s. | architecture computers nerds | Douglas Coupland | |
| 70d96d1 | Lonely people want to be dead, yet we're still not quite ready to go--we don't want to miss the action; we want to see who wins next year's Academy Awards. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| ebce98c | Kaitlin said, "I'm so sick of that 'Greatest Generation' crap. We finally drove a silver nail through the heart of Generation X, only to have this new monster rear its head. And I'm soooooo sick of Tom Hanks looking earnest all the time. They should make a Tom Hanks movie where Tom kills off Greatest Generation figureheads one by one." Bree arrived on cue: "And then he starts killing other generations. He becomes this supernova of hate--all.. | humor tom-hanks | Douglas Coupland | |
| a72a209 | What I notice is that everybody's kind of accusing everybody else of actingthese days. Know what I mean? Kind of, uh, not being genuine. Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 2cfa372 | To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition. | human-condition sorrow | Douglas Coupland | |
| 1f02deb | I imagine I sow cuttings of Anna-Louise's hair, like the fine stems of dried flowers, and watch sunflowers grow from the cuttings. I imagine I bury a pocket calculator with liquid crystals spelling her name, then watch the earth shoot forth lightning bolts. 'We should open up a seafood house together,' Anna-Louise says when she wants to torture me. Now that's love. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 0fbb82e | Abe: Wise hermit cast adrift on asteroid for thousands of years; has developed odd code languages for everyday actions; lonely but not bitter; his heart is cryogenically frozen, and he must search the universe pursuing the Thawer. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 4b954dd | Do you realize, Tyler,' says Anna-Louise, 'the entire time we were in the forest it rained steadily and not once did we approach a state of moistness? There was a storm and we didn't even know. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| bb4066c | We then return our gaze to the mirror-boxed future-towns circling us-the hard drives of our culture, where the human tribe is making flesh its deepest needs and fears; teaching machines to think; accelerating the pace of obsolescence; designing new animals to replace the animals we've erased; value adding; reconstructing the future. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 86820c5 | One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, .. | excitement fear ocean whale wild world | Douglas Coupland | |
| 861998e | Jason's father, Reg, always said "Love what God loves and hate what God hates," but more often than not I had the impression that he really meant "Love what Reg loves and hate what Reg hates." | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3b73792 | Now Karen wants a pill that will make the whole twenty-first century disappear - that will make this unavoidable future vanish. Dr Yamato said that earth was not built for six billion people, all running around and being passionate about being alive. Earth was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| bd5ad66 | I called Mom from the hotel during the period of peace, I'd turned out all of the lights and closed the curtains in pursuit of sensory deprivation. It was Black and sensationless. All There was in the room was my voice and mom's voice trickling out of the phone's earpiece, and this feeling passed through me-this feeling of what a gift it is that people are able to speak to each other while they're alive. These casual conversations, this fam.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| df8e303 | Keep your treasure to yourself. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| af43b19 | The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d1d7aff | Which is that there's too much weight improperly distributed: towers and elevators; steel, stone and cement. So much mass up so high that gravity itself could end up being warped-- | Douglas Coupland | ||
| a3299f5 | But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents' generation seems neither able nor interested in understanding how marketers exploit them. They take shopping at face value. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d3d56e0 | The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 918d51f | So, Son, instead of crying, be strong, so as to be able to comfort your mother . . . take her for a long walk in the quiet country, gathering wild flowers here and there. . . . But remember always, Dante, in the play of happiness, don't you use all for yourself only. . . . help the persecuted and the victim because they are your better friends. . . . In this struggle of life you will find more and love and you will be loved. | happiness son | Howard Zinn | |
| 749504d | Capital punishment could not be justified in any society calling itself civilized. | zinn | Howard Zinn | |
| 5297bf0 | There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged"." | Howard Zinn | ||
| 9274596 | party politics and religion now substituting for class conflict. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 53ebd3e | When Chief Black Hawk was defeated and captured in 1832, he made a surrender speech: I fought hard. But your guns were well aimed. The bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the trees in the winter. My warriors fell around me. . . The sun rose dim on us in the morning, and at night it sunk in a dark cloud, and looked like a ball of fire. That was the last sun that shone on Black Hawk. . . He is now.. | indians war | Howard Zinn | |
| 38c2643 | True, fascism was not to be tolerated by decent people. But neither was racism or colonialism or slave labor camps--one or another of which was a characteristic of all of the Allied powers. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 4b8ef04 | Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): "No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class." George Washington was the richest man in America. John Hancock was a prosperous Boston merchant. Benjamin Franklin was a wealthy printer. And so on. On the other hand, town mechanics, laborers, and seamen, as well as small farmers, were swept.. | Howard Zinn |