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If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

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Dan Simmons
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 4
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I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will do it. But we can hardly hear it for all the noise which has turned love into a cliche, and most people can't even hear John Lennon's All You Need Is Love anymore without wincing.
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Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.
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In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.
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Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.
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Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri
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The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
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Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.
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A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
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The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.
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The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer
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You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
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There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.
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The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.
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I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just intelligence - a new, evolving life form arising within our datasphere and coming into living relation with humanity.
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It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
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The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.
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