"Through our entire history we have become accustomed……" — Stanley Schmidt
"Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs."
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20 Quotes by Stanley Schmidt
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Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story…
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I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent,…
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Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't…
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Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking…
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There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully…
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There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because…
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When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes,…
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This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes…
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I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it,…
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Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering…
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What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we…
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Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background,…
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More Accustomed Quotes
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't…
— Terrence Trammell
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Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
— Milarepa
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not…
— Brother Lawrence
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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