

“A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristics of Quality”
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“I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.”
― The Historian
― The Historian

“Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.”
― Firefly Lane
― Firefly Lane

“No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City

“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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