“We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance.”
― Memories of Ice
― Memories of Ice
“Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.”
― Going Postal
― Going Postal
“And yet we say this. Here is the cave at the end of the world, peace is made between dwarf and troll, and we will march beyond the hand of Death together. For the enemy is not Troll, nor is it Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good...”
― Thud!
― Thud!
“When you've made up your mind to shout out who you are to the world, it's a relief to know that you can do it in a whisper.”
― Feet of Clay
― Feet of Clay
“Science, done right, works hard to respect absolutely no authority at all other than experience and empirical data. It never succeeds entirely, but it comes closer and has a better track record than any other method we apes have found for learning about the world around us.”
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
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