"Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts"

-- James Nicoll

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“The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.”

Source : Saint Catherine (of Genoa), Paul Garvin (1964). “The life and sayings of Saint Catherine of Genoa”
“With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made.”
“At the end of the day, the task I have is just like anyone else, to prove myself through my product or work. I've really found this to be true, the name advantage is a zero sum gain.”

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“You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.”
“Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?”
“If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the 'fact', must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.”

Source : John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.87, Taylor & Francis
“Human life is difficult. But as this life is coming to an end, I consider myself lucky to have lived it.”
“The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.”

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