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“Thomas Paine: ‘To argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason is as futile as to administer medicine to the dead.”
― Blackmore Dennett, The Ultimate Sci Fi Collection

“The way to keep a secret was to confide it to nobody; every time you did, you doubled, maybe even squared, the chances of exposure.”
― Blackmore Dennett, The Ultimate Sci Fi Collection

“Horatius at the Bridge?”
― Douglas E. Richards, The Enigma Cube

“If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals,”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“Great plagues from little microbes start.”
― H. Beam Piper, SCI-FI & FANTASY Boxed Set: 30 Dystopian Novels & Supernatural Stories: From Terro-Human Future History to Paratime: war, colonization, and time crimes

“A practical man can always make what he wants to do look like a noble sacrifice of personal inclinations to the welfare of the community.”
― Fritz Leiber, The 11th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 36 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories

“The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.”
― Fritz Leiber, The 11th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 36 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories

“The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Tales from Planet Earth

“Also England is a good country for introverts; they have a place in society for the introvert, which the United States has not.”
― Harlan Ellison, Again, Dangerous Visions

“Think about this, drunk comes in four parts, jocose, morose, bellicose, comatose.”
― Harlan Ellison, Again, Dangerous Visions

“They were hopelessly caught in a mire of pretty words, which they seemed to believe themselves.”
― Ray Bradbury, The 15th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 70 Classic and Modern Science Fiction Tales

“The individual who lives in a closed world of absolutes—shut in by prison walls of his own mind—is already insane.”
― Ray Bradbury, The 15th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 70 Classic and Modern Science Fiction Tales

“The economic collapse and the development of good color stereo television had resulted in the complete destruction of the movie industry. Although there was still much poor entertainment on the air, any person could usually find entertainment to suit his taste, whether it was for adventure stories or Shakespeare, for popular music or the works of the great composers.”
― Ray Bradbury, The 15th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 70 Classic and Modern Science Fiction Tales

“Dr. Ding, would you please show Yang Dong’s note to Professor Wang?”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“winning The Three-Body Problem and edited Invisible Planets, the first English-language anthology of Chinese SF from the 21st century.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“Bishop Augustine lived, as you know,” the lecture continued, “while Rome’s imperial power crumbled, the set decrees falling away. By this time, the growing population was Christian but barely so, and any fresh rules were yet to be firmly recognized. But now, in every locale, new Christian princes wished to war with other Christian princes, a troubling obstacle if you’re a diligent churchman busy building a religion based on peace and love.”
― S. A. Gibson, 2023 SciFi Anthology

“So, to ease these well-placed concerns, three hundred years ago, the enlightened Thomas Aquinas decreed that God-given knowledge really comes in two forms. These are understandings which you can discover on your own, by God’s grace, and that which is known only to Him, granted through divine revelation.”
― S. A. Gibson, 2023 SciFi Anthology