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Being an immortal doesn’t matter to me. If one looks out into the universe and perceives what true immortality would mean in terms of time and space, it takes monstrous hubris to even conceive of personal immortality, much less desire it.

— Sheri S. Tepper The Visitor (2002)

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The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

The Visitor (2002)

If a person torturing and killing people is evil, why are gods who torture and kill people called good?

The Fresco (2000)

“This is not philosophy, this is reality. Will you please keep in mind what’s going on!”

Six Moon Dance (1998)

Fear needn’t be grounded in fact to cause problems.

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

Man has always tortured in the name of his gods and committed atrocities in the name of his culture.

Sideshow (1992)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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