Master plan Quote by William J. Duiker

“I was willing to die fighting, but it was senseless for all these men to go down with me. Perhaps my blood was tainted,…

— Roger Zelazny

“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life which is the more free the more abstract it's interests, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Even a man persuaded that the great powers of the heavens loved him above all else could starve. However powerful a story might be,…

— Daniel Abraham

“They sought to take the unfairness out of existence, to remove the mistakes in the transmitted message of life which gave it any point…

— Iain M. Banks

“A billion and a half human souls, who had been given the techniques of music and the graphic arts, and the theory of technology,…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs. The human race had slowly…

— Philip K. Dick

“It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas of Mother…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He knew what she knew – that the world they lived in most days was an illusion of safety, that the real world, without…

— Reneé Porter

“I think, very plausibly, that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively, independently,…

— Noam Chomsky

“We did not evolve by precautionary living, nor by hanging back for lack or certainty.”

— Irv Thomas

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy