"We'll do what life always does defy expectations."
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"The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape."
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"I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves."
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"Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven."
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"I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid."
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"Ecstasy hates company."
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"And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it."
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"The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist."
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"Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?"
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"The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose."
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"From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states - the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality" - history as we had known or inferred it - was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea."
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"Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion."
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"It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen."
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"We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe."
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"I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events."
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"Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid."
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"One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand."
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"What we cannot remember, we must rediscover."
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"Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash."
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"This would have been less annoying had it been untrue."
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