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“Just then, the Tonists began throwing rocks at the trucks. One came in the chief's direction, and he caught it before it could hit him.
It wasn't exactly a rock, though. First of all, it was metallic and had hard ridges. He's seen something like this before in history books. Think! What was it called? Oh right--a grenade!
And in an instant there was nothing more for the chief to think about.”
― The Toll
It wasn't exactly a rock, though. First of all, it was metallic and had hard ridges. He's seen something like this before in history books. Think! What was it called? Oh right--a grenade!
And in an instant there was nothing more for the chief to think about.”
― The Toll
“You don’t talk about God as a hypothesis. You think you’ve cornered the truth, so I point out that you may have missed a thing or two. But if you ask, I’m happy to tell you: I can’t be sure that I’m right.”
― Contact
― Contact
“You can whisper, and people will still hear thunder.”
― The Toll
― The Toll
“In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. Standing over humans, gods, and demons, subsuming Caretakers and Tunnel builders, there is an intelligence that antedates the Universe.”
― Contact
― Contact
“Winston shrank back upon the bed. Whatever he said, the swift answer crushed him like a bludgeon. And yet he knew, he knew that he was in the right. The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind-surely there had to be some way of demonstrating that it was false? Had it not been exposed long ago as a fallacy? ...A faint smile twitched the corners of O'Brien's mouth as he looked down at him.”
― 1984
― 1984
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