"Why in God's name should a God be……" — Robert Sheckley
"Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?"
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Robert Sheckley
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30 Quotes by Robert Sheckley
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Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace…
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Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
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I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and…
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I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render…
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I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write,…
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Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
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So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote…
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Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
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I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like…
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I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
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A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy,…
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As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical…
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More Function Quotes
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by…
— James A. Baldwin
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I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God!…
— Stephen Baldwin
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
— Dave Barry
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I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone…
— Drew Barrymore
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
— Arnold Bennett
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic…
— Andrea Bocelli
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This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed…
— David Bohm
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A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any…
— David Bohm
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