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"Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can't directly influence things."

"We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff."

"Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor."

"The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'"

"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations."
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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

"The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate."

"The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great."

"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."

"Have you ever come across something you couldn't explain?""Explain in what way? I could explain a ghost by saying, 'yes, that's a ghost.' I take it, that's not what you mean."

"Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers."

"It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion."
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