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But a lady forced is never a lady won

Foundation's Fear

...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.

The Martian Race

To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain

Foundation's Fear

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.

The Martian Race

Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what ...

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A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has ...

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Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name

Foundation's Fear

Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes

Foundation's Fear

Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power.

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media.

Foundation's Fear

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a...

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It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far awa...

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As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal colu...

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Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the inte...

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Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to d...

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The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a...

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Gregory Benford

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Born: 1941-01-30

Died: N/A

Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941, in Mobile, Alabama) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.More