Kim Stanley Quotes

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• You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
• Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently…
• Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing…
• Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
• The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make…
• Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back
• The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world…
• When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last…
• It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.
• Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.
• An excess of reason is itself a form of madness
• It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.
• It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of…
• We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of…
• The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.
• Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence…
• First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.
• Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder
• In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
• What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is…

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