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

— Paul J. McAuley Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988)

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

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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.

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

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

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