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Nice paragraphs
Sam Pink, 99 Poems to Cure Whatever's Wrong with You or Create The Problems You Need
Sam Pink, 99 Poems to Cure Whatever's Wrong with You or Create The Problems You Need
Sam Pink, 99 Poems to Cure Whatever's Wrong with You or Create The Problems You Need
Sam Pink, 99 Poems to Cure Whatever's Wrong with You or Create The Problems You Need
Sam Pink, 99 Poems to Cure Whatever's Wrong with You or Create The Problems You Need
The validity of the promise, even promise in the indefinite term, was deep in the grain of Odo’s thinking; though it might seem that her insistence on freedom to change would invalidate the idea of promise or vow, in fact the freedom made the promise meaningful. A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no
... See more“Seeing the difference between now and not now, we can make the connection. And there morality enters in. Responsibility. To say that a good end will follow from a bad means is just like saying that if I pull a rope on this pulley it will lift the weight on that one. To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the
... See moreThe character Shevak talking about the ethical component to his research into time.
It was a very little walk: a slow ten-minute stroll over the grass, and then Vea collapsed gracefully in the shade of a high bank of shrugs, all bright with golden flowers. He sat down by her. A phrase Takver used camed into his mind as he looked at Vea’s slender feet, decorated with little while shoes on very high heels. “A body profiteer,” Takver
... See more“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think—refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!
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Where does [Sabul] get [power] from? Not from vested authority, there isn’t any. Not from intellectual excellence, he hasn’t any. He gets it from the innate cowardice of the
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