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“It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.”
“Try to think like a human, said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs.Why should I restrict myself so severely?”
“Try to think like a human,’ said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs.‘Why should I restrict myself so severely?”
“It all came back to human time and utterly human impulses: in the end, gods did not appreciate godlike power, but humans did.”
“Harl whirled round, all his attention ... on Skulker. "What is that on your carapace?""What?" Skulker tried to peer back... A tinny voice issued from somewhere... It took Skulker a moment to recogn...”
“Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisteda discussion point in the nature vs nurture d...”
“Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called pigheadedness.”
“It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech. The irony was that after coming to understand their riders fully, the beasts often ende...”
“The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all...”
“And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for freedom, be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain hes fighting for the freedom to tell yo...”
“If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.”
“Gemmell's name guarantees a satisfying story and a thumping good read. I recommend all his heroic creations - 'Druss the axeman,' 'the Jerusalem man,' among others - but my favourite has to be 'Way...”
“And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for ‘freedom’, be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he’s fighting for the freedom to tell...”
