“Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.”
― David Brin, quote from The Uplift War
“But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are the first to talk and think and build and aspire, but we may not be the last. Others may follow us in this adventure. Some day we may be judged by just how well we served, when alone we were Earth’s caretakers.”
― David Brin, quote from The Uplift War
“Someone once said that one measure of sentience was how much energy a sophont spent on matters other than survival. Fiben”
― David Brin, quote from The Uplift War
“The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct.”
― David Brin, quote from The Uplift War
“If only I had a decent sense of humor Ah, well. Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.”
― David Brin, quote from The Uplift War
David Brin
Born place: in Glendale, California, The United States
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“A friend helps you move; a real friend helps you move a body.”
― Travis Luedke, quote from Blood Slave
“Pike said, “Coming your way.” Pike gunned his Jeep out of the Shell station, and turned onto the highway at the first intersection. He lost sight of the van when he slowed for oncoming cars, but slalomed between traffic and quickly caught up. “Eight lengths back. I’m by a yellow eighteen-wheeler.” “Looking.” Pike was still settling into a groove when the van’s right-turn indicator flashed. They had gone less than a mile. “Blinker.” “Shit, I don’t have you.” “Las Palmas. West side.” “I’m looking.” Pike slowed to put distance between himself and the van. A horn blew behind him, then another, but Pike braked even harder, hanging back as the van turned onto a street between large, undeveloped lots. It stopped in plain sight of the highway. Pike left the highway, but turned in the opposite direction, watching the van in his sideview mirror. A hundred yards later he turned into a parking lot surrounding a home furnishings outlet. “They stopped at an empty lot.” “I”
― Robert Crais, quote from Taken
“America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, quote from The Souls of Black Folk
“La palabra chingar, con todas estas múltiples significaciones, define gran parte de nuestra vida y califica nuestras relaciones con el resto de nuestros amigos y compatriotas. Para el mexicano la vida es una posibilidad de chingar o ser chingado. Es decir, de humillar, castigar y ofender. O a la inversa. Esta concepción de la vida social como combate engendra fatalmente la división de la sociedad en fuertes y débiles. Los fuertes – los chingones sin escrúpulos, duros e inexorables– se rodean de fidelidades ardientes e interesadas. EL servilismo ante los poderosos – especialmente entre la casta de los "políticos" esto es, de los profesionales de los negocios públicos– es una de las deplorables consecuencias de esta situación . Otra, no menos degradante es la adhesión a las personas y no a los principios. Con frecuencia nuestros políticos confunden los negocios públicos con los privados. No importa. Su riqueza o su influencia en la administración les permite sostener una mesnada que el pueblo llama, muy atinadamente, de "lambiscones" (de lamer).”
― Octavio Paz, quote from The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
“Morrell, ever a true comrade, too had a splendid brain. In fact, and I who am about to die have the right to say it without incurring the charge of immodesty, the three best minds in San Quentin from the Warden down were the three that rotted there together in solitary. And here at the end of my days, reviewing all that I have known of life, I am compelled to the conclusion that strong minds are never docile. The stupid men, the fearful men, the men ungifted with passionate rightness and fearless championship - these are the men who make model prisoners. I thank all gods that Jake Oppenheimer, Ed Morrell, and I were not model prisoners.”
― Jack London, quote from The Star Rover
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