The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim - Larry Niven

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We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

Larry Niven

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

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The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.

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Ethics change with technology.

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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

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Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

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There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door.

Child, Children, Choice, Choices Made, Men, Universe

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It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.

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