"People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be."

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Harry Turtledove

“But often times, I feel like I'm so blessed, it's not fair. That what I'm doing is not contributing to the good of the world.”

Source : "What Made Ginnifer Goodwin 'Freak The Fudge Out?'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.yahoo.com. February 7, 2013.
“What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.”
“One day, youre a nobody, and the next, youre in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.”
“But what doesnâ€™t die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.”
“there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.”
“All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.”

Source : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.50, Princeton University Press
“God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.”
“One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.”

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