"If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels."

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Source : Jack McDevitt (2007). “Cauldron”, p.105, Penguin

Jack McDevitt

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“Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.”
“I basically just make films that interest me. And I don't want to make the same film twice, you know? But I've never found a franchise, so... I guess I'm lot poorer because of that, but... what astonishes me is that, at my age, I can still find things that interest me. And that's tremendous.”

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“Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.”
“No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.”
“It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.”
“It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.”
“Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.”
“There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will." I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?" "Love the sky.”

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