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They wait in clutching haste for fate to fill the inside straight of their happiness.

— George Alec Effinger The Man Outside (1983)

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You underestimate the ability of people to act like idiots.

Relatives (1973)

Proper knowledge defeats the shouting minions of emotion.

What Entropy Means to Me (1972)

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

When Gravity Fails (1986)

“How quickly I could clean this desk,” she thought, “if only the wastebasket were larger.”

Ibid (1977)

She gave me a wide-eyed, innocent smile that looked as out of place on her as it would have on a desert scorpion.

A Fire in the Sun (1989)

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John Lewis

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

“Destiny,” said John. “The ghastliest word a man can speak.”

Poul Anderson The Corridors of Time (1965)

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