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

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

"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."

"The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden."
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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."

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

"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."
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