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Michael Flynn
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Quotes by Michael Flynn
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The sentries might not be the most alert, but they might have marked a skulking, five-shoe tall grasshopper.
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When your words come out of your mouth and back into your ear, your brain gives them a second rinse, and cleans them up a little better. All Tom knew was that when he tried to explain things to Sharon, his own thinking clarified.
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Never underestimate a determined woman. Universes are flimsy things in their hands.
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It takes more than knowing how to point the ship to be a captain,” he said with more than a touch of black choler. “It takes knowing where and why to point it.
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Ockham snorted. “I am no nominalist. The problem with teaching the Modern Way is that lesser scholars, excited by the novelty, seldom bother to master my insights. There are lips on which I heartily wish my name had never rested. I tell you, Dietl, a man becomes a heretic less for what he writes than for what others believe he has written.
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The Luna-Ganymede Race went down in history, and the magnetic sail went down to the fusion thruster. Terranova should never have taken the bet, but it was a matter of pride – and prive loves loss above surrender.
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Tom was deep in MEGO by then. My Eyes Glaze Over. Normally, he was fascinated by matters statistic, but look up “fascination” someday.
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The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a white object. But the soul is not a form in this simple sense, and in particular, is not the shape of the material it informs. Therefore, the shape of a being does not affect the being’s soul, for then something lower would inform something higher, which is impossible.
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