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“When the devil does actually appear, the best option is calmness and rationality.”
― Cixin Liu, The Dark Forest

“A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to the landscape with its plants and animals. This new existence requires a working knowledge of those multiplex and cross-linked events usually referred to as nature. It requires a measure of respect for the inertial power within such natural systems.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“Regardless of the content of the broadcast, if a civilization’s language was listed in the broadcast, it meant that the civilization still existed or had existed once and lasted so long that it had left an indelible mark in the great universe.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End