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job, Barris decided, isn’t that important. You have to be able to trust the organization you’re a part of; you have to believe in your superiors. If you think they’re up to something, you have to get up from your chair and do something,
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“Yet, this was a society built on death. Death was an everyday part of their lives. Individuals died and no one was perturbed, not even the victims. They died happily, gladly. But it was wrong. It was against nature. A man was supposed to defend his life instinctively. Place it before everything else. This society denied a basic drive common to all life forms.”
― Dr. Futurity
― Dr. Futurity
“original courage is good, motivation be damned, and if you say they are trained to feel no pain, are they guaranteed this?”
― The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
― The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
“Immortality.” Then death, he realized, has a positive meaning. Not the end of life. And not merely because these people wish to believe, but because it is a fact. Their world is constructed that way.”
― Dr. Futurity
― Dr. Futurity
“their minds aren’t fixed on the present; it’s the future that’s real to them. Those to come, in a sense, are more real than those who are walking around now.”
― Dr. Futurity
― Dr. Futurity
“going to nationalize the doctors, lawyers, painters, musicians. During the last decades the technocratic and professional classes had gradually gained control of society.”
― Dr. Futurity
― Dr. Futurity
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