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“The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.”
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“What binds us to space-time is our rest mass, which prevents us from flying at the speed of light, when time stops and space loses meaning. In a world of light there are neither points nor moments of time; beings woven from light would live "nowhere" and "nowhen"; only poetry and mathematics are capable of speaking meaningfully about such things.”
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“The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.”
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“Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.”
Source : "More Than Human". Book by Theodore Sturgeon, Chapter 2, p. 97, 1953.
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“An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.”
Source : Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.412, OUP Oxford
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“My #‎ intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.”
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“all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction”
Source : Kate Constable (2011). “The Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy bundle: fantasy adventure magic series The Singer of All Songs; The Waterless Sea; The Tenth Power”, p.18, Allen & Unwin
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“Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.”
