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"You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are."
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"In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops " I mean Pride of the Blue Devils.In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in CancAon during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom."
"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."
"If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist."
"Yousef had been lighthearted during his questions, but there was something very serious and sad under his smile, and Alan knew what it was. It was the knowledge that there would be no fighting, and there would be no struggle, no stand taken, and that the two of them, because they were not lacking materially, because despite injustices in their countries they were the recipients of preposterous bounty, would likely do nothing. They were content, they had won. The fighting would be done by others, elsewhere."
"Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth."
"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."
"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."
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"In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought."
"Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down."
"The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief."
"You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school."
"The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature-all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct."
"Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved."
"This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right."
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