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... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

Jack McDevitt

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Jack McDevitt
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: April 14
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Science Fiction Writer
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.
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If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.
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Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.
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Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.
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See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.
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Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.
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Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.
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An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.
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But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.
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The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.
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If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
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The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.
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When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.
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Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. We watch television, Dave said.
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There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.
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Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.
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The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.
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Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.
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There's not much to be said for sightseeing. You go somewhere that has a waterfall. You have a beer, watch the water go over the edge, and move on. Tours are all the same. In the end, the only thing that matters is the beer.
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So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.
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