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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers, they were so often wrong."
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"The wisest of the wise may err."
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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers, they were so often wrong."
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"I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things."
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"It's not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that's deftly deluding mankind. It's man himself."
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"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."
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"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along."
Creativity
"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
"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."
Obsolescence
"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
"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."
Power
"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."
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