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How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one’s life.

It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.

He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.

Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.

One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.

“I can’t imagine,” said Dupre, “a better way to unnerve people than to tell them there’s no cause for alarm.”

“I suspect we would be wise,” he said without looking up, “to avoid declaring what God will or will not allow.”

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.

Embrace your life, find what it is that you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived.