Jack

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Jack’s Quotes

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: infinity, perception

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“Unfortunately,” he said, “we have short memories. Most heroes are forgotten by the next news cycle.”
― Jack McDevitt, Coming Home

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“Few people achieve greatness. One reason is that the opportunity, for the vast majority of us, never even shows up. Another is that if it does, it will inevitably look like a long shot. And the temptation invariably is to play it safe.”
― Jack McDevitt, Coming Home

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“I don’t think I’d have wanted to be around during a dark age. It’s odd, though. They had interstellar flight. And data retrieval and everything.” Gabe nodded. “None of it matters if you have an unstable society and tin-pot dictators. They had several hundred years of economic collapse. Widespread poverty. A few people at the top had all the money and influence. They had terrible overpopulation, struggles over water and resources. Civil wars. And widespread illiteracy.” The thirty-second to the thirty-ninth century. “It’s a wonder we survived.”
― Jack McDevitt, Coming Home

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Alternate Realities: A Scifi Book Club — 459 members — last activity Sep 23, 2026 07:13PM
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This group was made as a place to discuss books by indie authors and allow them to pitch their books to an interested audience.

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