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An ethic isn’t a fact you can look up. It’s a way of thinking.

— Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human (1953)

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It's the simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

Two Percent Inspiration (1941)

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic.

More Than Human (1953)

The idiot heard the sounds, but they had no meaning for him. He lived inside somewhere, apart, and the little link between word and significance hung broken.

More Than Human (1953)

There’s this about a farm: when the market’s good there’s money, and when it’s bad there’s food.

More Than Human (1953)

A pig among people is a pig, he tells himself, but a pig among pigs is people.

Venus Plus X (1960)

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

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