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“We hold each other and I’m shaking, because I’m thinking how close I came to losing her. If she’d been closer to ground zero in San Diego, she’d be dead now. So many people are dead, because for decades citizens like me and my dad, my uncle, and Lissa’s parents—good people—quietly financed war after war because it’s easier to pay our taxes than to risk our livelihoods by trying to change the system. Our silence let wealth accumulate in the hands of people like Thelma Sheridan, people who came to believe they could buy absolutely anything, even innocence.”
― Linda Nagata, First Light

“WATNEY: Look! A pair of boobs! -> (.Y.).”
― Andy Weir , The Martian

“Philosophy without criticism is like hunting deer without a shotgun, so, if you want people to like you, avoid robust philosophical debate.”
― Julian Baggini, The Duck That Won the Lottery: and 99 Other Bad Arguments

“When the explorers stepped out, human feet trod on old Earth once more; after an absence of 560 million years. Mankind was back home.”
― C.M. Kosemen, All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man