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Evolution can’t be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it’s a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn’t aim.

— Robert Charles Wilson Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.

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Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind—and some you carry with you, world without end.

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You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.

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