"He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft."

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Vernor Vinge

#Gun Quotes #Mind Quotes #Thunder Quotes

“In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.”
“Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.”
“America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.”
“It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.”
“I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.”
“The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.”
“There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.”
“I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close.”

Source : "Life as a House". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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