"He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe."

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Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.109, Macmillan

Vernor Vinge

#Believe Quotes #Saws Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.”
“I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.”
“The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.”
“Ostracism means you don't exist at all. And that's a very difficult situation to live with. As gay people, we had been chasing ostracism by that point for probably 300 years. You just knew that you should have dropped into your black hole.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking.”

Source : Sulak Sivaraksa (1992). “Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society”
“You must learn to walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness; then the light will appear and show the way before you.”
“In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.”

Source : Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr
“It is clear that we cannot go up another two orders of magnitude as we have climbed the last five. If we did, we should have two scientists for every man, woman, child, and dog in the population, and we should spend on them twice as much money as we had. Scientific doomsday is therefore less than a century distant.”

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