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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form."
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"Facts do not speak."
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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
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"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
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"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."
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"The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story."
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"If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all."
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"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."
Man
"Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world."
Success
"I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself."
Motivation
"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful."
Defense
"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
Fact
"Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'Mentor'. The so-called joy machines were banned on all planets, except under strict medical control; but there would always be people to whom reality was not good enough, and who would want to try something better."
Technology
"And yet, even while they baffled him, they aroused within his heart a feeling he had never known before. When- which was not often, but sometimes happened- they burst into tears of utter frustration or despair, their tiny disappointments seemed to him more tragic than Man's long retreat after the loss of his Galactic Empire. That was something too huge and remote for comprehension, but the weeping of a child could pierce one to the heart.Alvin had met love in Diaspar, but now he was learning something equally precious, and without which love itself could never reach its highest fulfillment but must remain forever incomplete. He was learning tenderness."
Emotion
"These leaders must not believe they are actually being watched, for their behavior in no way reflects the possible existence of a set of values or ethical laws that supersedes their own dominion."
Politics
"But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea, there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment."
Science
"He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness."
Sadness
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