"I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion."

-- Stanley Schmidt

#Fashion Quotes #Falling In Love Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.”
“My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.”
“The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.”
“The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms.”

Source : Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.215
“Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.”
“No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.”
“What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.”
“I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.”

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