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“I didn’t know that you were into politics.”
“Anyone with money has to be. Real money, I mean. Even criminals need to keep a politician in their pockets these days.”

— 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.

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

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