"Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict."

-- Scott Westerfeld

#Ideas Quotes #Conflict Quotes #Humans Quotes

“You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.”
“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.”
“To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them.”
“There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.”
“I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.”
“I don't benefit by minimizing his accomplishments Andre Ward.”
“In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.”
“There are good and bad times in a relationship. You start to understand more about how a relationship can go awry when two people spend too much time together. They tend to overlook all of the red flags that pop up early because they want to make it work and they want to believe it's right.”

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