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"We are what we pretend to be."

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

"Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.”

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous.  He or she is like a person who put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.”

"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.”

 

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