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Wilma smiled gently and put her hand on my arm the way a woman does when she forgives a man for failing her.
But now we have dial phones, marvelously efficient, saving you a full second or more every time you call, inhumanly perfect, and utterly brainless; and none of them will ever remember where the doctor is at night, when a child is sick and needs him. Sometimes I think we’re refining all humanity out of our lives.
The human mind searches for cause and effect, always; and we all prefer the weird and thrilling to the dull and commonplace as an answer.”
The human animal won’t take a straight diet of any emotion: fear, happiness, horror, grief, or even contentment.
We hate facing new facts or evidence, because we might have to revise our conceptions of what’s possible, and that’s always uncomfortable.”
Now they were menacing, all these familiar things and faces; the town had changed or was changing into something very terrible, and was after me. It wanted me, too, and I knew it.
some little signs of the endless urge to change and improve that marks the human race.
It is universal adaptability to any and all other life forms, under any and all other conditions they might possibly encounter.”
“Yes, Doctor Bennell, your body contains a pattern, all living matter does—it is the very foundation of cellular life. Because it is composed of the tiny electrical force-lines that hold together the very atoms that constitute your being. And therefore it is a pattern—infinitely more perfect and detailed than any blueprint could be—of the precise atomic constitution of your body at exactly that moment, altering with every breath you take, and with every second of time in which your body infinitesimally changes. And it is during sleep, incidentally, when that change occurs least; and during
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Revelation is the word for a complex of thought revealing itself instantaneously with the enormous impact of absolute truth.
Quite simply, the great pods were leaving a fierce and inhospitable planet.
We shall fight them in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.