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    Vernor Vinge
    “So High,
    So Low,
    So Many Things to Know”
    ― Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
    tags: deepness, scifi, transcedence
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    Vernor Vinge
    “We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.”
    ― Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
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    Vernor Vinge
    “Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.”
    ― Vernor Vinge, The Children of the Sky
    tags: fiction, fictions, history, mythology
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    Vernor Vinge
    “Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.”
    ― Vernor Vinge, The Children of the Sky
    tags: marketing, reality, redefining, sales
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    Roger Zelazny
    “I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber
    tags: libraries, libraries-shadows, security, words
    551 likes

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    Roger Zelazny
    “Nobody steals books but your friends.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon
    tags: books, friendship, inspirational, irony, stealing
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    Roger Zelazny
    “No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
    tags: buddhism, history, humanity, memory, narrative, reality, semiotics, story, truthful, words
    208 likes

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    Roger Zelazny
    “Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos
    tags: apocalypse, armageddon, cinema, death, end-of-the-world, life, post-modernism, simulacra
    208 likes

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    Roger Zelazny
    “I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
    tags: corwin, growing-up, growth, life, moving-forward, moving-on, self
    146 likes

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    Roger Zelazny
    “Good-bye and hello, as always.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
    tags: eternal-return, eternity, greetings, parting
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    Roger Zelazny
    “When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, The Great Book of Amber
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    Roger Zelazny
    “I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
    tags: gullible, inspirational, lies, reality, truth, words
    28 likes

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    Roger Zelazny
    “The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, This Immortal
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
    tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
    3146 likes

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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “My home is not a place, it is people.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
    tags: honor, reputation
    153 likes

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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Komarr
    tags: dreams
    121 likes

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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free
    tags: humor
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “One step at a time,” Vorkosigan returned grimly, “I can walk around the world. Watch me.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “An honor is not diminished for being shared.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
    30876 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
    ― Robert Heinlein
    tags: efficiency, laziness, morning-people, progress
    1030 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: future, history, past
    238 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Secrecy begets tyranny.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: democracy, freedom, patriot-act
    240 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: humor, true
    235 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Belief gets in the way of learning.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: belief, learning, preconceptions, understanding
    207 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: debate, faith, philosophy, science, scientific-method
    207 likes

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    Sun Tzu
    “There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
    196 likes



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