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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature.
Fermi Paradox innovations: Graph theory to the rescue, December 2011: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature".

— Karl Schroeder

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That’s what being human means: to be master of your own fate.

Lady of Mazes (2005)

But what good's abundance if nobody can experience it?

Lady of Mazes (2005)

The richest billionaire has to realize that the gods next door take no more notice of him than he would a bug.

Ventus (2000)

“Something’s wrong.”
Axel shrugged. “That statement probably applies to every second I’ve spent on this blasted world.”

Ventus (2000)

“All sound is music,” he had said, “and there is no place without sound.”

Ventus (2000)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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