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Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!


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Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!



Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.



The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.



Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.



Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.



You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.



Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.



It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.



Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.



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Social control is best managed through fear.





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Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.

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We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.




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