Tango

“That,’ Peregrine said, ‘is civilisation. Not all who were rewarded deserved to be; not all who should have been were.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revenger

“We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revenger

“Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time."
"Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“Respect for women is essential,” Jack tells him. “Women’s rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated. Treating women properly is not just a moral position—which it is—or an American value—which it is. It’s a strategic imperative, and you will always, always lead by example in this regard.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X