@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. The mad tend to crave it, many of the sane crave it, but the wise worry about its long-term side effects.”
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@goldenarchivepress.bsky.socialThe island is part of the experiment: society and inherited explanations disappear while nature remains. Change the geography, and the philosophical problem changes.
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best way of finding a solution is to let one’s thoughts drift until the right moment comes to pounce, like a tiger taking its prey by surprise.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While someone is in darkness another is in daylight.While person dies another is born.”
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