All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish. -- N. K. Jemisin

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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.

Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

Things do not change, we change.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything…

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. On Repentance.