Identity Quote by Kim Stanley Robinson

“But to say self-interest is all that exists, or that it should be given free rein! My Lord. Believe that and nothing matters but money.” quote by Kim Stanley Robinson — Download Open image

““But to say self-interest is all that exists, or that it should be given free rein! My Lord. Believe that and nothing matters but money.””

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“And so sometimes when you feel strange, when a pang tugs at your heart or it seems like the moment has already happened- or when you look up in the sky and are surprised at the sight of bright Jupiter between clouds, and everything suddenly seems stuffed with a vast significance-consider that some other person somewhere is entangled with you…

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“There remained a main melody, or a path through a maze—a maze that was like the delta of the Po. He seemed to look down on it as he sang it. A great number of channels were weaving down a slightly tilted plain. Each channel was a mathematical specialty—some of them shallow and disappearing into the sand, but most making…

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