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    Muriel Spark
    “She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.”
    ― Muriel Spark, Bang-Bang You're Dead and Other Stories
    tags: politics, reviewing
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    Murray Leinster
    “We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.”
    ― Murray Leinster, The Wailing Asteroid
    tags: humans
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    Brian W. Aldiss
    “Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down.”
    ― Brian W. Aldiss, An Island Called Moreau
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    Paul Fussell
    “Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt.”
    ― Paul Fussell
    tags: vanity-in-review
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    Ian C. Esslemont
    “It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.”
    ― Ian Cameron Esslemont, Stonewielder
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: violence
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    Denis Diderot
    “A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.”
    ― Denis Diderot
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    Edmund Crispin
    “As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.”
    ― Edmund Crispin
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    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world
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  • #12
    “clangour.”
    ― Claire Morgan, Carol
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