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Success (103)
Sidney’s damnation was complete when, his expansion .nished, his size and power in.nite, his dominance total over a cosmos in which there was now indeed nothing worth his stealing, he realized (in some strange fashion) that he was now God and that even his reincorporation in .esh, a matter now easily within his powers, would not change things much. It had after all been tried by his most immediate predecessor without notable success. - Robin Scott Wilson, ‘‘Last Train to Kankakee’’ (1972)
A real sense of triumph must be preceded by real despair. She had unlearned despair a long time ago. There were no more triumphs. One went on. - Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘‘The Day Before the Revolution’’ (1974)
History, as [H. G. Wells] sees it is a series of victories won by the scienti.c man over the romantic man. - George Orwell, ‘‘Wells, Hitler, and the World State’’ (1941)
The history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite: a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man’s accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race. - Jack Vance, ‘‘The Last Castle’’ (1966)
‘‘Logic’’ proved that airplanes can’t .y and that H-bombs won’t work and that stones don’t fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn’t happen yesterday won’t happen tomorrow. - Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road (1963)
Among all men- those who value beauty, money, success, prestige- those of us who value love are the most dangerous of all. More than any others, we will compromise morals, ethics, our lives, and the lives of those around us- all for the sake of love. - Tara K. Harper, Grayheart (1996)
‘‘Human beings,’’ said Tu.aron, familiarly known as the Mad Genii, ‘‘are stupid and willful. They derive intense enjoyment from su.ering or else they would not bend all their e.orts toward su.ering.’’ - L. Ron Hubbard, ‘‘Borrowed Glory’’ (1941)
The silence seemed to carry as much weight as that deep mass of foliage which covered all the land on the day side of the planet. It was a silence built of millions upon millions of years, intensifying as the sun overhead poured forth more and more energy in the .rst stages of its decline. Not that the silence signi.ed lack of life. Life was everywhere, life on a formidable scale. But the increased solar radiation that had brought the extinction of most of the animal kingdom had spelt the triumph of plant life. Everywhere, in a thousand forms and guises, the plants ruled. And vegetables have no voices. - Brian W. Aldiss, ‘‘Nomansland’’ (1961)
Powerwasn’tamatter of jobtitles,after all.Powerwasamatter ofvision, persuasiveness, freedom of movement, fame, in.uence. - Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1992)
The all but impossible glory of having walked on the moon, of proving our mind power and our brilliant technology, this cannot ever be dimmed. [. . .] We have hurled ourselves closer to the gods. - Emil Petaja, ‘‘That Moon Plaque: Comments by Science Fiction Writers’’
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