Universal deities. . . never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence … - Jack McDevitt

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You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.

Jack McDevitt

Universal deities. . . never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

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An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.

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The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

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If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.

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See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

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If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

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