Quotes from I, Jedi

“Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, quote from I, Jedi

“If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, quote from I, Jedi

“If the wind no longer calls to you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, quote from I, Jedi

“Do you want help?"
"No."
"Do you need help?”
― Michael A. Stackpole, quote from I, Jedi

“Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusion or triumph. Life is more than time passing before death, it is the sum and total of all we make of it.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, quote from I, Jedi

“A Two-Onebee droid doesn’t need to contract a disease to diagnose and treat it.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, quote from I, Jedi

“Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could still be evil. That is the problem, of course, evil is always easy and resisting it is never so. Evil is relentless; and anyone, if they tire, if they are not vigilant, can fall prey to it.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, quote from I, Jedi

“I have nothing against kids—as long as they go home with their parents at the end of the day.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, quote from I, Jedi

“This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, quote from I, Jedi

“selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, quote from I, Jedi

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“Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.”
― David Halberstam, quote from The Fifties

“I am sad that I did not see any of this myself. By the time I had received the communication on television and in my morning paper, felt the tugging pull toward Manhattan, and made my preparations to migrate, I learned that the army ants had all died.

The Art Form simply disintegrated, all at once, like one of those exploding, vanishing faces in paintings by the British artist Francis Bacon

There was no explanation, beyond the rumored, unproved possibility of cold drafts in the gallery over the weekend. Monday morning they were sluggish, moving with less precision, dully. Then, the death began, affecting first one part and then another, and within a day all 2 million were dead, swept away into large plastic bags and put outside for the engulfment and digestion by the sanitation truck.

It is a melancholy parable. I am unsure of the meaning, but I do think it has something to do with all that plastic- that, and the distance from earth. It is a long, long way from the earth of a Central American jungle to the ground floor of a gallery, especially when you consider that Manhattan itself is suspended on a kind of concrete platform, propped up by a meshwork of wires, pipes, and water mains. But I think it was chiefly the plastic, which seems to me the most unearthly of all man's creations so far. I do not believe you can suspend army ants away from the earth, on plastic, for any length of time. They will lose touch, run out of energy, and die for lack of current.”
― Lewis Thomas, quote from The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

“Finding a homeland is not the same as dwelling in the place where our ancestors once used to live.”   —KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI”
― Tony Judt, quote from Ill Fares the Land

“Part of what we pick up in looking at Jesus in the gospel is a way of viewing the whole world. That worldview informs all our values and deeply shapes our thinking and decision-making. Another part of what we absorb is greater confidence in Jesus' counsel and his promises. This has its own powerful effect on what we fear and desire and choose. Another part of what we take up from beholding the glory of Christ is greater delight in his fellowship and deeper longing to see him in heaven. This has its own liberating effect from the temptations of this world. All these have their own peculiar way of changing us into the likeness of Christ. Therefore, we should not think that pursuing likeness to Christ has no other components than just looking at Jesus. Looking at Jesus produces holiness along many different paths.”
― John Piper, quote from God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

“Mr. Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.”
― Ian McDonald, quote from The Dervish House

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