Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001)[citation needed] was an American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with occasional film performances.
It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.
It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.
Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.
It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history.
Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.
Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike.
It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.
The command to be free is a double bind
Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder
You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).
In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.
The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.