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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

— Kim Stanley Robinson Galileo's Dream (2009)

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Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can’t grasp the current situation.

Red Mars (1992)

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Green Mars (1993)

When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

Galileo's Dream (2009)

We live in a universe ruled by very few laws, but the redoubling of violence by violence is one of the main ones.

The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

That didn’t bother John; there were always knee-high people hacking away, trying to get everyone down to their size.

Red Mars (1992)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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