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You can’t hate change. It’s like hating life.

— Paul J. McAuley Elves of Antarctica (2016)

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We wish not to be alone in the universe, Dorthy, and this drives people to invent things that are not really there.

Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988)

Stay the same and after a while you come to think that nothing will ever change.

Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988)

“We must remember that they are alien.”
“That’s hardly a basis for speculation now. It explains everything and nothing.”

Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988)

Things are simply what they are, neither good nor bad. The potential for evil is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988)

It was both true, and not the complete truth, like so much of his talk.

Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988)

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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