“It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be
approached without some humor and some bewilderment.”
“Sanity is, in essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.”
“I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe is some sense must have known that we were coming”
“It is impossible to make real progress in technology without gambling.”
“Nonviolence is often the path of wisdom, but not always. Love and passive resistance are wonderfully effective weapons against some kinds of tyranny, but not against all.”
“It is important for long-range stability that peaceful countries be well armed and well organized in self-defense.”
“Our eyes were on the Other-world, the stars, the gods.
We didn’t keep watch on the world around us.
And when we eventually lowered our heads and studied the waters closer to home, it was too late.”
“Unlike the other darkside Lords, whose places of power were fixed geographical localities where they reigned supreme, Jack’s was more a tenuous one, and liable to speedy cancellation, but it existed wherever light and objects met to make a lesser darkness. With”
“How do you say yoo-hoo in Arabic?"
"I believe that yoo-hoo could be part of a universal language," Dan said. "Like ow. Or- you're stepping on my foot."
"That's universal?"
"No, you're stepping on my foot. Ow."
Amy moved.”
“Life isn’t good, find a way to make it that way, or at least make it better.”
“The debt to iniquity—to wickedness?” I murmur aloud.”
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