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"It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another."

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"Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings."

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"After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil."

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"Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity."

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Silhouettes of human evolution against a sunset, depicting the transformation from early ancestors to a modern human with outstretched arms, symbolizing the journey to humanity.

"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."

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"In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure."

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"There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain."

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"Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers."

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"You have to live to really know things, my love"

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"The day is perfect and I hate it for being so."

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"It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another."

"Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings."

"After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil."

"Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity."

"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."

"In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure."

"There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain."

"Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers."

"You have to live to really know things, my love"

"The day is perfect and I hate it for being so."

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