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Paolo Bacigalupi has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the…
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.
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For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning;…
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Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a…
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Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save…
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Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you…
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We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours.…
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Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece…
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She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool…
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
— Fred Allen
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Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into…
— Barry Goldwater
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The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.
— Confucius
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All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.
— Nellie Fox
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They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a…
— D. H. Lawrence
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You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
— Abraham Lincoln
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PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal…
— Calvin Coolidge
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A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will…
— John Stuart Mill
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