"We want to believe we are good, we are different, we are better, or we are superior. But this body of social-psychological research--and there are obviously many more experiments in addition to mine and Milgram's--shows that the majority of good, ordinary, normal people can be easily seduced, tempted, or initiated into behaving in ways that they say they never would. In 30 minutes we got them stepping across that line."

-- Philip Zimbardo

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“Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.”
“Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.”
“I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.”

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“It is personalities not principles that move the age.”
“I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.”
“This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or [to] seed our cosmos with life. The situation is so unstable that I doubt we can dwell at this fork in the road for more than another hundred years. But if we end up going the life route instead of the death route, then in a distant future our cosmos will be teaming with life, all of which can be traced back to what we do-here and now. I don't know how we'll be thought of, but I'm sure that we won't be remembered as insignificant.”
“I'm a closet singer-songwriter. That keeps my creative juices flowing.”
“John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspectiveâ€”a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.”

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