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As usual he looked tired, but that was normal. Geniuses worked harder than anyone else, not less hard.

— Charles Sheffield The Compleat McAndrew (2000)

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It is very clear that nothing in nature presents such a danger to the human race is our own actions.

Dancing with Myself (1993)

The mills of bureaucracy may or may not grind fine, but they certainly grind exceeding slow.

The Compleat McAndrew (2000)

The laws of probability not only permit coincidences; they absolutely insist on them.

The Compleat McAndrew (2000)

Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.

Convergence (1997)

Intelligence is too subtle an attribute to be inferred from appearance.

The Mind Pool (1993)

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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