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Ron Bottorff
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Evolution itself will of course eventually refill all these emptied ecological niches with new species. The pre-existing plenitude of speciation will be restored in less than twenty million years.
“Nope, I said to myself while climbing into bed and switching off the light, there is no kindness in any of that. For kindness begins where necessity ends.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“Over the years we saw what worked and refined our methods. Violence didn’t work. Numbers did. That’s the secret, in case you are looking for the secret to resisting an imperial power, which was what we were doing through those years. Non-violent resistance of the total population, or as much of it as you can get. That’s what works.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
“Stone had decreed no dinner dress, only suits, or as the British preferred to call them, “lounge suits.”
― Hush-Hush
― Hush-Hush
“As William Shakespeare said in Henry IV, “we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next.”
― Every Cloak Rolled in Blood
― Every Cloak Rolled in Blood
“And there are things about the Swiss you have to admire. They are so punktlich, so punctual— this is funny at first, but what is it but a regard for the other person? You are saying to the other person, your time is as valuable as mine, so I will not waste yours by being late. Let us agree we are all equally important and so everyone has to be on time, in order to respect each other.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
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