"To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat."

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Source : Greg Bear (2014). “The Venging: Stories”, p.189, Open Road Media

Greg Bear

#Ignorance Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.”
“It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in your heart.”
“When I lived in Pinetop I just wanted to leave - I thought the city was where I belonged. But now that I'm living in the city, I love it for what it is. It's brought me closer to my art and put me in the right place as far as having people around me. It's very inspiring, but I miss our little town. There's something very simple and beautiful about growing up in a small place. That's where my heart is, for real.”
“I pulled into the Grand Union parking lot and drove to the end of the mall where the bank was located. I parked at a safe distance from other cars, exited the BMW, and set the alarm. You want me to stay with the car in case someone's riding around with a bomb in his backseat looking for a place to put it?" Lula asked. Not necessary. Ranger says the car has sensors." Ranger give you a car with bomb sensors? The head of the CIA don't even have a car with bomb sensors. I hear they give him a stick with a mirror on the end of it.”
“In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director”
“As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.”
“[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.”
“A closed mouth doesn't get fed.”

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