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You shouldn’t be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that’s what science is all about.

— Connie Willis Bellwether (1996)

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Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

Doomsday Book (1992)

Ah, Hollywood, where everybody wants to be in the movies and nobody’s ever bothered to watch one.

Remake (1994)

Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

Bellwether (1996)

A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key.

Fire Watch (1985)

“Fifty-nine,” Mr. Mowen said. “That’s too many coincidences to just be a coincidence.”

Fire Watch (1985)

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

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