"Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

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“Only if you bring together the experience of the concrete struggles conducted by the real masses in the three sectors of the world (which are also called the three sectors of world revolution), then you have an overall, correct view of world reality.”
“Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.”
“Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.”
“To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.”
“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”
“It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?”

Source : "God Is an Iron and Other Stories". Book by Spider Robinson, 2002.
“Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.”
“They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house.”

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