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“There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all matters”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

tags: funny, husband, sarcasm, superior

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“We’re not searching for anything except people. We don’t need other worlds. We need mirrors.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

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“I always thought there would be ice in hell”
― Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

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“The opportunity for evil in itself does not suffice; people need a rationale as well. Consider how unpleasant, how awkward it must be when your neighbor, catching his breath (and that can happen anytime), screams, 'Why?' - or, 'Aren't you ashamed?!' It's embarrassing to stand there without a ready answer. A crowbar makes a poor rebuttal, everybody senses that. The whole trick lies in having the proper grounds to brush aside such aggravating objections. Contemptuously. Everyone wants to commit a villainy without having to feel like a villain.”
― Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

tags: evil

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“The economically uneducated tend to view wealth as a zero sum game by which one can only be wealthy from taking from someone else's and one is poor since someone took theirs'. Thus, it follows that the richer region in the world, Europe is rich since it exploited the poorest, Africa. They fail to understand that immense poverty is the natural state of man. In reality, Europe is rich and Africa is not since geographic and historical factors incentivized Europe to create institutions that created wealth, which never occured in Africa. Africa and Europe are rich and poor for reasons that have little to do with the other.”
― Anonymous

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