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Despite my confusion I liked Koskinen immediately. He had the heartening bulk of the aging athlete defeated by pastry. He delivered all news as though it were good.
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Nathan Moore
“They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.”
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“The truth is, preparing for interstellar travel and then sending out ships filled with colonists is bound to be a job so long, thankless, expensive, and difficult that I suspect that only a religion could do it. A lot of people will find ways to make money from it. That might get things started. But it will take something as essentially human and as essentially irrational as religion to keep them focused and keep it going—for generations if it takes generations. I suspect it will. You see, I have thought about this.”
― Parable of the Talents
― Parable of the Talents
“You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away.”
― Joe Country
― Joe Country
“I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.”
― Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
― Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
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