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“Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried up. No water. The Hopi, and the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. The system is designed to recognize what's beyond human power to change, and then to change the human's attitude to be content with the inevitable." - Tony Hillerman, Sacred Clowns, 1993”
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“What an optimistic animal man is!" said Rumfoord rosily. "Imagine expecting the species to last for ten million more years - as though people were as well-developed as turtles!" He shrugged. "Well - who knows - maybe human beings will last that long, just on the basis of pure cussedness. What's your guess?”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“Then the Communists set up a front organization, the National Rifle Association, to encourage the wide usage of guns of all sorts, and to battle any attempt to control guns as “unconstitutional.” Thus, they guaranteed that the murder rate in Unistat would always be the highest in the world. This kept the citizens in perpetual anxiety about their safety both on the streets and in their homes. The citizens then tolerated the rapid growth of the Police State, which controlled almost everything, except the sale of guns, the chief cause of crime.”
― Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy: The Universe Next Door/The Trick Top Hat/The Homing Pigeons
― Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy: The Universe Next Door/The Trick Top Hat/The Homing Pigeons
“How can we account for long-term memory”, van Lommel asks, “if the molecular makeup of the cell membrane of neurons is completely renewed every two weeks and the millions of synapses in the brain undergo a process of constant adaptation?”15”
― Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife
― Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife
“Unlike the riotous appetites of adolescence, his present cravings had a tragic tinge, they were cravings for the appetites, metacravings, wanting to want.”
― The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
― The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
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