"Why do most people think their own impoverished……" — Poul Anderson
"Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?"
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24 Quotes by Poul Anderson
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He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
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Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?
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I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say,…
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The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.
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A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
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Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes…
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So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption…
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Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
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Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a…
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I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had…
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Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals,…
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What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was…
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More Impoverished Quotes
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both…
— Roland Barthes
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for…
— Frederic Bastiat
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We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the…
— J I Packer
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I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the…
— Isaac Asimov
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There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the…
— Unknown Author
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Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.
— Barack Obama
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Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own…
— Rajneesh
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The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready…
— Barbara Boxer
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As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human,…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice,…
— Samuel Johnson
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By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.
— George MacDonald
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We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished…
— Norman Myers
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