"War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it."

-- Bruce Sterling

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“Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?”
“Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II thing, this segmentation of the arts, so lame. It's the laming of the arts.”
“Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life. Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.”
“Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.”
“The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.”
“As followers of Christ, we must remember always to build our defense of the Christian faith on the sure foundation of the Bible. If we do so, there will be no weight too great to be supported; no wind too strong to be resisted.”
“Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.”
“I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.”

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