“I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?"
Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
“One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.”
― Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
― Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
“It is better to burn than to disappear.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
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