"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."

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Arthur C. Clarke

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“I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.”
“I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.”
“The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”
“Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert that these are perceptual illusions ... Each of us lives within the universe - the prison of his own brain.”
“I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books. I'd make them for 10 cents and sell them for a dollar. But I knew there was an audience who loved silly stuff so I just kept plugging away.”
“I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?”
“If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.”

Source : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.182, Granta
“Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.”

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