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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “That’s why you aren’t hearing from anyone out there. That’s why the great silence persists. There are many other living intelligences out there, no doubt, but they can’t leave their home planets any more than we can, because life is a planetary expression, and can only survive on its home planet.” “But.”

151. “That’s why you aren’t hearing from anyone out there. That’s why the great silence persists. There are many other living intelligences out there, no doubt, but they can’t leave their home planets any more than we can, because life is a planetary expression, and can only survive on its home planet.” “But.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “To ask what it all means, what it’s all for. To consider the axioms we are agreeing to live by. To acknowledge the reality of other people, and of the planet itself. To see other people’s faces. To walk outdoors and look around.”

152. “To ask what it all means, what it’s all for. To consider the axioms we are agreeing to live by. To acknowledge the reality of other people, and of the planet itself. To see other people’s faces. To walk outdoors and look around.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “But sometimes it seems to me that people just like to hold on to their grievances. Righteous indignation is like some kind of drug or religious mania, addictive and stupidifying.”

153. “But sometimes it seems to me that people just like to hold on to their grievances. Righteous indignation is like some kind of drug or religious mania, addictive and stupidifying.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “Much of human language is said to be fundamentally metaphorical. This is not good news. Metaphor, according to Aristotle, is an intuitive perception of a similarity in dissimilar things.”

154. “Much of human language is said to be fundamentally metaphorical. This is not good news. Metaphor, according to Aristotle, is an intuitive perception of a similarity in dissimilar things.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “Winning all those banquet debates had apparently caused Galileo to think that argument was how things were settled in the world. Unfortunately this is never how it happens.”

155. “Winning all those banquet debates had apparently caused Galileo to think that argument was how things were settled in the world. Unfortunately this is never how it happens.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “He came to realize that no one was watching him, no one was listening. The tiny imaginary audience inside his head did not exist; no one watches our life movies.”

156. “He came to realize that no one was watching him, no one was listening. The tiny imaginary audience inside his head did not exist; no one watches our life movies.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change.”

157. “Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “Volatile people, you can’t trust them, that’s the thing; and they know it. So that even if they feel remorse, it does no good, and they know that too. So they get lonely. And they feel the remorse less and less, maybe. They give up.”

158. “Volatile people, you can’t trust them, that’s the thing; and they know it. So that even if they feel remorse, it does no good, and they know that too. So they get lonely. And they feel the remorse less and less, maybe. They give up.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “That is what capitalism is – a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings.”

159. “That is what capitalism is – a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “A hurt mammal never forgets. Epigenetic theory suggests an almost Lamarckian transfer down the generations; some genes are activated by experiences, others are not.”

160. “A hurt mammal never forgets. Epigenetic theory suggests an almost Lamarckian transfer down the generations; some genes are activated by experiences, others are not.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “So until the climate was actually killing them, people had a tendency to deny it could happen.”

161. “So until the climate was actually killing them, people had a tendency to deny it could happen.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a consciousness. It didn’t seem possible.”

162. “It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a consciousness. It didn’t seem possible.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “A pinch of mother is worth a pack of shaman.”

163. “A pinch of mother is worth a pack of shaman.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “Strange how one remembered faces until you tried to look at them in your mind, when they turned away from you.”

164. “Strange how one remembered faces until you tried to look at them in your mind, when they turned away from you.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “Then it’s a matter of troubleshooting, grasping the bull by the horns, seizing the nettle, coping and hoping, damning torpedoes, and trying any old thing, including the engineer’s solution, which is to hit things with a hammer.”

165. “Then it’s a matter of troubleshooting, grasping the bull by the horns, seizing the nettle, coping and hoping, damning torpedoes, and trying any old thing, including the engineer’s solution, which is to hit things with a hammer.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “Nakedness was dangerous to the social order, she thought, because it revealed too much reality.”

166. “Nakedness was dangerous to the social order, she thought, because it revealed too much reality.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “It was important to get things right, especially if you were going to make sayings out of them.”

167. “It was important to get things right, especially if you were going to make sayings out of them.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “The intellect derives from the senses, which are limited, and come from the body. The intellect therefore is also limited, and it can never truly know reality, which is infinite and eternal.”

168. “The intellect derives from the senses, which are limited, and come from the body. The intellect therefore is also limited, and it can never truly know reality, which is infinite and eternal.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “The current rate of extinctions compared to the geological norm is now several thousandfold faster, making this the sixth great mass extinction event in Earth’s history, and thus the start of the Anthropocene in its clearest demarcation, which is to say, we are in a biosphere catastrophe that will be obvious in the fossil record for as long as the Earth lasts.”

169. “The current rate of extinctions compared to the geological norm is now several thousandfold faster, making this the sixth great mass extinction event in Earth’s history, and thus the start of the Anthropocene in its clearest demarcation, which is to say, we are in a biosphere catastrophe that will be obvious in the fossil record for as long as the Earth lasts.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “I consider my novels, amongst many other things, to be my political activism. I’m interested in portraying futures where there are more cooperative, altruistic, post-capitalist systems that are working well.”

170. “I consider my novels, amongst many other things, to be my political activism. I’m interested in portraying futures where there are more cooperative, altruistic, post-capitalist systems that are working well.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson Quote: “And tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites.”

171. “And tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites.”

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