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Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly. ↗

— Dave Sim

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My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

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Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

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It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

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Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead? ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

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We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

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I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible. ↗

— Georges Simenon

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I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men. ↗

— Georges Simenon

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Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food. ↗

— Georges Simenon

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For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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