Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve … - Jack McDevitt

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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Jack McDevitt

Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.

Deserve, Grateful, Punishment, Recognizing, Sunset

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An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.

Committees, Political, Reality, School, Systems, Thinking

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

Change, People, Power, Problem, Want

If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.

Care, Saving, Wonder, Nobody, Worth

See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

Blue, Perspective, Forever, Sign, Habitation, Altered

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

Attention, Mind, Occupied, Rudy