"I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors."

-- Larry Niven

“Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.”
“The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.”
“If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.”
“It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.”
“I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.”
“How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds â€” and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man is no longer a unique being with infinite possibilities and limitless choices but a number, a puppet, with just this difference â€” numbers and puppets are not susceptible to fear.”
“You have to know what you want to get it.”
“I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.”

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