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The gooseneck," Badim adds, with a quick smile at Freya. "It connects the boom to the mast, but it isn't very robust.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

Genius is not a matter of intelligence, but of spirit; and we cannot speak accurately of the spirit in any language but music.

They were somewhere near Chelyabinsk 56, someone said. You don't want to go there, a Russian added. One of Stalin's biggest messes.

Teaching was the most rigorous form of learning.

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

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

Consciousness is the hard problem.

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

Also it isn't clear yet whether it was an act of God or an act of war.

And analogies were mostly meaningless - a matter of phenotype rather than genotype (to use another analogy).

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

Who programmed this thing?

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

And tourism is an ugly business, it's not fit work for human beings. It's hosting parasites.

It was a whiny culture, we were finding.

no one else can live your life for you.

Every day we wake up into a new world, each sleep causes yet another reincarnation.

Freedom in an injust system is no freedom at all.

it looked like the centuries-long wrestling match between state and capital had ended in a decisive victory for capital. Possibly

Existential nausea comes from feeling trapped. It is an affect state resulting from the feeling that the future has only bad options.

All their love had been a way of fixing time, each embrace a moment's touch of the eternal, because the caress preserves.

Maybe that's what a marriage is," Mqaret said. "Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

It's the love of right lures men to wrong.

You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated.
"Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!

Memory is a haunting.

Knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue everywhere and covered everything.

Spoofing? No. Ponzi scheme? Not at all! Just finance. Legal as hell.

So she fixes things by thinking about them!

We think now that love is a kind of giving of attention.

Round and round and round we go, And where we stop, nobody knows.

In the infinite black space of ignorance, it is as if stands as the basic operation of cognition, the mark perhaps of consciousness itself. Human

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

So now I'm popular?" Freya says. "They hate me, and I hit someone, and now they like me?

If you don't act on it, it wasn't a true feeling

One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.

Is anger always just fear flung outward at the world? Can anger ever be a fuel for right action? Can anger make good? We

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

Nothing was ever normal again.
Many lives change like that -- all of a sudden, and forever.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

But of course no one was listening. No one understands us, not ever.

The one percent get nasty when their assets are threatened.

Ship, are you conscious now?" "My speaking establishes a subject position that might be conscious.

Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

not in any single system, but in the stack of all systems, the accidental megasystem. It

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

The past is always gone," Wahram said. "Whether the place is still there or not.

Extra time was spent on the farms in every biome, and in watching the feed from Earth.

causing a refugee crisis rated at ten thousand katrinas. One

As if you are already dead.'" "What's that?" "A Japanese saying. Live as if you are already dead.

And, you know, you never really summon all of your strength until you know that there's no way back, no way to go but onward.

Slow is not the same as deficient. It's just slow. A glacier is slow too, but it gets there, and nothing stops it.

The locus of power wandered the face of the Earth like some poor restless immortal, following the sun.

Every moment an epiphany arrives, and cleaves the mountain asunder.

People only invoke history to ballast their arguments in the present." "Maybe

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

Arabic, like Greek, had been a scientific language early on,

Sheer dumb sentience. Here

You have to fight not only against what you hate, but for what you love, you see?

In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental.

when you are a small minority and you own the majority's wealth, security is naturally a primary consideration.

Capital itself is simply the useful residue of the work of past laborers, and it could belong to everyone as well as to a few.

Sleep, memory, sleep, body; fall thankfully into the moment, and dream.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Sometimes I get so scared."
"Fear is a form of alertness.

We should think of Earth as our sun. We all revolve around it, and it exerts a huge drag on us.

Religion could not be faked or used for worldly purposes.

Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology?

But it could lead to trouble. Is a few minutes' passion worth that?" "It is, it is. Believe me.

You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both.

It can be nice and still be a prison." "I

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

No one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

Bold didn't know what he felt, it changed minute by minute.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.

Righteous indignation is like some kind of drug or religious mania, addictive and stupidifying.

The Whorl, whose inhabitants keep watch for an outsider

In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.

a postcarbon landscape, each

And some part of him saw it was going to be all right. the heart is pleased by one thing after another.

Could we do both?

No one knows anything. But I know less than that, because I thought I knew something, but it was wrong. So I know negatively. I unknow.

Against our lives we would like to rebel, But we worry that then it would all go to hell. Aram

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

Enough is as good as a feast. And it's when everyone is equal that your kids are safest.

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

If you can't afford housing then the right to vote is a bad joke.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

Galileo did not want to agree. He never wanted to agree; agreeing was something other people did, with him, after they had disagreed.

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.