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He’d slammed on the brakes because that’s the sort of man he was: spontaneous. When he remembered to be.
“All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
“It was astounding, Bobbie thought, how quickly humanity could go from 'What unimaginable intelligence fashioned these soul-wrenching wonders?' to 'Well, since they’re not here, can I have their stuff?”
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“The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop”
― Moon Over Soho
― Moon Over Soho
“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
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“No system which implies control by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse.”
― In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
― In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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