Quote by Cordwainer Smith Download Open image ““The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.”” — Cordwainer Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“and the number is six hundred and sixty-six,” that is, six times a hundred, six times ten, and six units. [He gives this] as… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
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“More than twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half.” — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
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“The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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“It was not the site of the earth which surprised him – it was the smell. … This earth and air smelled alive. There… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...” — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“Was that what people learned between the stars? To care for other people very much indeed and to spring upon them only to reveal… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“There is no call for you to get tragic about it. Tragedy is easy enough to contrive. And if you want to be tragic,… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“Joan commented, upon sentence, "My body is your property, but my love is not. My love is my own, and I shall love you… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“He looked at his dry old hand and it seemed to him that in this atmosphere, he had himself become more reptilian than human.… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“Chang nodded sagely. “My father insisted on it. He said, ‘You may be proud of being a scanner. I am sorry you are not… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“... crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.” — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“At sixteen Helen was already famous, and at seventeen already forgotten, and very much alone.” — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“It was all of this: The beat and the heat and the neat repeat of the notes which poured from the congohelium—metal never made… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
![“and the number is six hundred and sixty-six,” that is, six times a hundred, six times ten, and six units. [He gives this] as a summing up of the whole of that apostasy which has taken place during six thousand years. 3. For in as many days as this world was made, in so many thousand years shall it…” quote by The Church Fathers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ad1/the-church-fathers-1438_mathematics_and-the-number-is-six-hundred-and-sixty_1998936.jpg)
