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In the far future, he confided, he piloted (or will pilot—the tenses get a little addled) interstellar spacecraft.
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“It is a mistake," he said, " to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century. Once it was well known that cigarettes increased the incidence of lung cancer, the obvious remedy was to stop smoking, but the desired remedy was a cigarette that did not cause cancer. When it became clear that the internal-combustion engine was polluting the atmosphere dangerously, the obvious remedy was to abandon such engines, and the desired remedy was to develop non-polluting engines.”
― The Gods Themselves
― The Gods Themselves
“We often respond to today's world with yesterday's adaptations. (quoting Dan Fesster)”
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