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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
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Personal Development
"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."
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Personal Development
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
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Personal Development
"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."
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Personal Development
"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."
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Personal Development
"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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Personal Development
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid."
Government
"And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up."
Friendship
"In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists."
Society
"I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad."
Privacy
"My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names."
Security
"I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational."
People
"I love superconductors."
Love
"The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it."
War
"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."
Medical
"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."
Building
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