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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.
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We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
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The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
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All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.
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She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.
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This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.
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Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us. If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.
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In this world only the paranoid survive.
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mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.
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