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It’s unpleasant to find that what you had thought of as moral scruples suddenly seem not quite so important in the face of a stack of money.

— John Varley

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The nice thing about being a pessimist is that bittersweet is an improvement.

Millennium (1983)

They understood the basic principles of morals: that nothing is moral always, and anything is moral under the right circumstances.

Like plugging into life-support equipment, I view apologizing as a dangerous vice that can take over your whole life if you give in to it.

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Predestination is the ugliest word in any human language.

Millennium (1983)

I found that it is much more pleasurable to read adventures than to live them.

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Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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