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Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.
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Dangerous
Rashness
Timidity
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Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
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Heaven
Hell
Literal
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Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos?
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Science
Cosmos
Wipe
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We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?
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Archetype
Writing
Archetypes
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Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.
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Figures
Infinite
Navel
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Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.
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Drunk
Serious Business
Settling
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Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.
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Men
Ignorant
Machines
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You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.
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Becoming
Knows
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The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.
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Firsts
Fishes
Problem
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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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Men
Effort
Sight
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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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Men
Science
Too Much
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Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?
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People
Stupidity
Thinking
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My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.
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Imperfect
Statistics
Yield
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If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.
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Exploration
Reason
Solar System
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A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.
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Peace
War
Causes
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There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.
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Believe
Stupid
Wings
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Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.
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Action
Flow
Giving
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These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.
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Adventure
Heart
Land
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A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.
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Men
Alive
Littles
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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.
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Complicated
Problem
Right Way
Way
More
See Way More
Any
Did
Way More Right
Way See More
Still
However
Looked
Right
See
Which
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Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery
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Bravery
Destiny
Two
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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
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Motivational
Truth
Witty
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Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.
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Wise
Dark
Fall
Stars
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The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.
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Government
Organization
People
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At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.
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Science
Creativity
Inspiration
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What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.
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Journey
Zero
Book
Remembered
Thinking
Somewhat
Tour
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In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.
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Harvest
Human Personality
Machines
Notion
Personality
Program
Stars
Aspects
Basic
Original
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I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not communicating.
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Art
Thinking
Writing
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I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.
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Book
Harvest
Implications
Obvious
Revolutionary
Stars
Touched
Writing
Barely
Biological
Perfectly
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So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way.
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Technology
Way
Years
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In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and therefore the survival of nearly the entire human race, along with such amenities as peace, freedom, enough to eat, and the chance to reach a high age in good health.
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Space
Civilization
Race
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Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.
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Men
Space
Mean
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Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itself…the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.
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Believe
Fall
Stars
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It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.
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Technology
War
Names
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