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By the year 1900, the British Empire believed itself to own a third of the world.
“It’s shocking to wake up in one world and find yourself in another by nightfall, but the situation isn’t actually all that unusual. You wake up married, then your spouse dies over the course of the day. You wake up in peacetime and by noon your country is at war; you wake up in ignorance and by the evening it’s clear that a pandemic is already here.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.”
― Contact
― Contact
“No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business.”
― Contact
― Contact
“There were a Scotsman named McFee Who got stung on his nuggets by a bee He made tons of money By producing lots of honey Every time he went for a pee.”
― Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
― Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
“My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
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