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“Tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 5, “Home At Last” (p. 239)

Business

“Could politics ever be anything but politics, practical, cynical, compromised, ugly?”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 363)

“A change in the form of government, why should that make a difference in the way he lived?”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 381)

Way , Change

“Only a few people in this world were lucky enough to run into their true partners—it took outrageous luck for it to happen, then the sense to recognize it, and the courage to act. Few could be expected to have all that, and then to have things go well. The rest had to make do.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 393)

People , World , Courage , Sense

“Politics in its most common form: complaint. No one wanted to do it but everyone was happy to complain about it.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 9, “Natural History” (p. 433)

Happiness

“It’s amazing what superstitions survive in fearful minds.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 10, “Werteswandel” (p. 462)

Fear

“Dominance hierarchies had underlain every system ever realized so far, but at the same time democratic values had been always a hope and a goal, expressed in every primate’s sense of self, and resentment of hierarchies that after all had to be imposed, by force.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 11, “Viriditas” (p. 483)

Time , Hope , Sense

“The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecraft, of immutable History.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 563)

History , Stupidity

“Why were the good days always so short? Moment to moment, day by day—each so full, and oh so lovely—and then gone forever, gone before there was a chance to absorb them properly, to really live them.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 566)

Chance , Love

“Immigration worked as a time machine, bringing up little islands of the past into the present.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 598)

Time , Past

“Ah, never fear; death could be trusted to show up. No doubt well before she wanted it.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 603)

Fear , Death

“One could not overshoot a planet’s carrying capacity without disaster following—that was what Earth’s history since the nineteenth century existed to prove.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 621)

History

“No—living on after the memory died was mere farce, pointless and awful.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 644)

Memory

“Science was a social construct, but it was also and most importantly its own space, conforming to reality only; that was its beauty. Truth is beauty, as the poet had said, speaking of science. And it was; the poet had been right”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

they weren’t always
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 657)

Beauty , Truth , Reality , Science

“We’ve moved beyond our ability to understand our technology.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 692)

Understanding

“People in the streets, that’s the only thing governments are afraid of. Well, or term limits. Or free elections! Or assassination. Or being laughed at, ah, ha-ha-ha!”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (pp. 746-747)

People

“Anytime you have to threaten people to get them to laugh at your joke you have to consider it less than successful, okay?”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (p. 748)

Success , People

“It’s a sorry excuse for a government anyway. It always gets back to the same old thing, power suckers sucking power.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (p. 750)

“We live in a universe ruled by very few laws, but the redoubling of violence by violence is one of the main ones.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book The Years of Rice and Salt

Book 3: "Ocean Continents"
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

Law , Universe

“I think Christian comedy has gotten a bad rap in the past because it's very passive, and it's not honest. It's like knock-knock jokes type humor. What we're bringing to the table is another level of honesty, and maybe transparency that I think does make some people uncomfortable.”

John Crist (comedian) (1984) American comedian

[Paulson, Dave, John Crist: A Christian comedian who's gently poking fun at faith, https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2019/04/11/john-crist-christian-comedian-nashville-comedy-festival-ryman-auditorium/3215394002/, 6 September 2019, The Tennessean, April 11, 2019, en]

People , Past , Thinking

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