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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
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"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."
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"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."
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"I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business con."
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"The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say."
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"It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact."
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"Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket."
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"Electing a bigot enables further bigotry."
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"Civilization is the commercialization of survival."
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"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."
Energy
"It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance."
Society
"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars."
Space
"Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter."
Energy
"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."
Earth
"Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars."
Science
"Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots."
Army
"The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light."
Energy
"No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world."
Excitement
"If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be."
Travel
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