"It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations."

-- Frederik Pohl

#Population Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Science Fiction Quotes

“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.”
“On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?”
“The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.”

Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 31, 1954.
“Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.”
“NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.”
“Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process.”
“I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads,by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.”

Source : "Islam at the Crossroads" by Muhammad Asad, Dar Al-Andalus, (p. 70), 1982.

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