"We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die."

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Jerry Pournelle

#Fear Quotes #Eggs Quotes #Variables Quotes

“The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.”
“In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.”
“I think I really believed my childish thoughts back then. Using the determination of the poor, the childish thought that I can do it if I tried with all my might. But in reality...I never did get to defeat him. No. I couldn't beat him.”
“I can get through anything, any obstacle, after what I've been through.”
“In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.”
“The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.”
“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. â€œAuthentic dissent can be difficult, but it's always invigorating,â€ [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. â€œIt wakes us right up.”
“I can't experience my brain because I'm inside of it. If you're imaging your brain, you can also find scary things. As one ages, your brain shrinks. And how much it shrinks, and where it shrinks, relates to conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia.”

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