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“This is a lovely world,” he sighed. “And yet it has suffered horror. Sometimes, so-called civilization seems bent on destroying those very things which it is sworn to protect.”

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David Brin livre The Uplift War

Source: The Uplift War (1987), Chapter 93 (p. 590)

“We are having extreme difficulty with local gangs of “Survivalists.” Fortunately, these infestations of egotists are mostly too paranoid to band together. They’re as much trouble to each other as to us, I suppose. Still, they are becoming a real problem.”

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David Brin livre The Postman

Source: The Postman (1985), Section 1, “The Cascades”, Chapter 5 (p. 43)

“It’s magic,” the chief cook concluded, in awe.
”No, not magic,” the ship’s doctor replied. “It’s much more. It’s mathematics.”

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David Brin livre Glory Season

Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 24 (p. 466)

“He read about humanity’s age-old racial struggles. Had it really been less than half a millennium since humans contrived gigantic, fatuous lies about each other simply because of pigment shades, and killed millions because they believed their own lies?”

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David Brin livre Startide Rising

Source: Startide Rising (1983), Chapter 81 (p. 364)

“But it’s not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after.”

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David Brin livre Glory Season

Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 21 (p. 387)

“It was a queer, disturbing instant of recognition. We all create monsters in our minds. The only important difference may be which of us let our monsters become real.”

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David Brin livre Earth

Part III (pp. 145-146)
Earth (1990)

“Beware of assumptions that seem “obvious” in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.”

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David Brin livre Earth

Afterword (p. 661)
Earth (1990)

“Of course, sometimes a species’ invention only benefited itself. Goats developed an ability to eat almost anything, right down to the roots. Goats proliferated. Deserts spread behind them.
Then another creature appeared, one whose originality was unprecedented. Its numbers grew. And in its wake some other types did flourish. The common cat and dog. The rat. Starlings and pigeons. And the cockroach. Meanwhile, opportunity grew sparse for those less able to share the vast new riches—huge expanses of plowed fields and mowed lawns, streets and parking lots…
The coming of the grasses had left its mark indelibly on the history of the world.
So would the Age of Asphalt and Concrete.”

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David Brin livre Earth

Part II (p. 122)
Earth (1990)

“Life is the continuation of existence, yet no thing endures. We are all patterns, seeking to propagate. Patterns which bring other patterns into being, then vanish, as if we’ve never been.”

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David Brin livre Glory Season

Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 16 (p. 281)

“The man talked, but somehow nothing he said seemed to make any sense.”

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David Brin livre Earth

Part XI (p. 647)
Earth (1990)

“What hope has any endeavor which is based on hate and fear?”

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David Brin livre Glory Season

Introduction to Chapter 12 (p. 191)
Glory Season (1993)

“He managed to lie by implication while speaking words that were the literal truth, a skill he had grown good at, if not proud of.”

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David Brin livre The Postman

Source: The Postman (1985), Section 3, “Cincinnatus”, Chapter 5 (p. 200)

“Intelligence is loose in the galaxy. Power is in our hands, for better or worse. We can modify Nature’s rules, if we dare, but we cannot ignore her lessons.”

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David Brin livre Glory Season

Introduction to Chapter 2 (p. 32)
Glory Season (1993)

“Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.”

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David Brin

Orbit interview (2002)

“Piss on the world, or it’ll piss on you.”

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David Brin livre Glory Season

Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 9 (p. 155)

“Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.”

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David Brin livre Earth

Part VII (p. 328)
Earth (1990)

“They saw the end coming, he thought, looking down the file of awful figures. But they were dead wrong about the reasons why. They assumed only gods had the power to wreak such havoc on their world, but people caused the devastation here.
Alex felt compassion for the ancient Pasquans—but a superior sort nevertheless. In blaming gods, they had conveniently diverted censure from the real culprit. The designer of weapons. The feller of trees. The destroyer. Man himself.”

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David Brin livre Earth

Part VII (p. 366)
Earth (1990)

“The lesson they took home with them was simple; it takes a full belly before a man or woman gives a tinker’s damn about anything as large as a planet.”

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David Brin livre Earth

Part IX (p. 493)
Earth (1990)

“Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.”

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"Interview de David Brin" at ActuSF.com (March 2008) http://www.actusf.com/spip/article-5739.html

“Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.”

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David Brin livre The Transparent Society

Source: The Transparent Society (1998), Ch. 1

“There were times when Robert actually envied his ancestors, who had lived in dark ignorance, before the twenty-first century, and seemed to have spent most of their time making up weird, ornate explanations of the world to fill the yawning gap of their ignorance. Back then, one could believe in anything at all.
Simple, deliciously elegant explanations of human behavior—it apparently never mattered whether they were true or not, as long as they were incanted right. "Party lines" and wonderful conspiracy theories abounded. You could even believe in your own sainthood if you wanted. Nobody was there to show you, with clear experimental proof, that there was no easy answer, no magic bullet, no philosopher's stone. Only simple, boring sanity.
How narrow the Golden Age looked in retrospect.”

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David Brin livre The Uplift War

Source: The Uplift War (1987), Chapter 53 (pp. 324-325)

“It is dangerous these days for a male to write even glancingly on feminist themes. Did anyone attack Margaret Atwood’s right to extrapolate religio-machismo in The Handmaid’s Tale? Women writers appear vouchsafed insight into the souls of men—credit that seldom flows the other way. It is a sexist and offensive assumption, which does not advance understanding.”

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David Brin livre Glory Season

Afterword (p. 561)
Glory Season (1993)

“Apparently, the Fates were not so unsubtle as to deal him another blow just yet. He knew they didn’t operate that way. They always let you hope for a while longer, then strung it out before they really let you have it.”

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David Brin livre The Postman

Source: The Postman (1985), Section 1, “The Cascades”, Chapter 8 (p. 68)

“The good side of the world media village was the sense it gave ten billion that each of them had at least some small connection with the whole. The bad side was that no one ever encountered anything, anymore, that was completely new.”

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David Brin livre Earth

Part V (p. 245)
Earth (1990)

““I thought they were very good at what they did.”
”Of course they were good!” Brill glanced sharply. “The issue is what one chooses to be good at. The arts are fine, for hobbies. I play six instruments, myself. But they pose no great challenge to a mature mind.””

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David Brin livre Glory Season

Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 27 (p. 545)

“Loneliness, her arch enemy, never seemed content.”

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David Brin livre Glory Season

Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 9 (p. 150)

“He tried again, but their sullen, rural obstinacy was impervious to logic.”

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David Brin livre The Postman

Source: The Postman (1985), Section 2, “Cyclops”, Chapter 4, “Harrisburg” (p. 126)

“Is there an inverse relation between knowledge and wisdom? At times it seems the more we know, the less we understand.
I am not the first to note this quandary. One scholar recently wrote, “Lysos and her followers chase the siren call of pastoralism, like countless romantics before them, idealizing a past Golden Age that never was, pursuing a serenity possible only in the imagination.””

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David Brin livre Glory Season

Introduction to Chapter 26 (p. 502)
Glory Season (1993)

“What was it like, he wondered, to care about something so passionately? He suspected it made her somehow more alive than he was.”

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David Brin livre Earth

Part IV (p. 187)
Earth (1990)

“I’m learning, Maia thought. They keep making mistakes and I keep getting stronger.
At this rate, someday I may actually gain control over my life.”

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David Brin livre Glory Season

Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 27 (p. 531)

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