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Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? – David Brin

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Theres no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. – David Brin

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Science
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Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. Ive had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam… and Im not happy to be right in all of those cases. – David Brin

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865

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Carpe Diem

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Carpe Diem

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?… If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. – Epictetus

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Carpe Diem

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. – Jack London

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Carpe Diem

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Sometimes Ive had to put myself on a diet. – Roger Moore

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These days, with American Idol and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move. – Barry Manilow

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I dont believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. – Marilyn Manson

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