"When all hopes are lost, only then does……" — Greg Bear

"When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become."

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16 Quotes by Greg Bear

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Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they…
Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual…
Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed…
All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a…
Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political…
It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with…
Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not…
For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out…
It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people…
Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep…

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is… — Robert Barclay
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any… — Edward de Bono
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden
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As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge. — Jeb Bush
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly… — Smedley Butler
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement;… — Vince Cable
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. — Taylor Caldwell
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to… — Alexander Hamilton
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and… — George Fordyce

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