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The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? E...more

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The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip t...more

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It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

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The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next...more

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I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

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Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

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That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.

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I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to ...more

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NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, ho...more

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At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it...more

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I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

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Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Car...more

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It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

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As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as they can understand') there are lies-to-bosses ('as ...more

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The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things