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In the twenty-first century fiction might thereby become the most potent force on earth, surpassing even wayward asteroids and natural selection.

all mass identities are based on fictional stories, not on scientific facts or even on economic necessities.

From a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition natural

This volatility will also make it more difficult to organize unions or secure labor rights.

ritual is a magical act that makes the abstract concrete and the fictional real.

If this generation lacks a comprehensive view of the cosmos, the future of life will be decided at random.

The most important secular commitment is to the truth, which is based on observation and evidence rather than on mere faith.

greatest crimes in modern history resulted not just from hatred and greed but even more so from ignorance and indifference.

Few of these forecasts came true. On the other hand, nobody foresaw the Internet.

Nationalist isolationism is probably even more dangerous in the context of climate change than of nuclear war

fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively. We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states.

History is not deterministic. It is not a means for making accurate predictions. Our present situation was neither natural nor inevitable, and we have many more possibilities before us than we imagine.

want to gauge group loyalty, requiring people to believe an absurdity is a far better test than asking them to believe the truth.

The gossip theory might sound like a joke, but numerous stories support it.

fictional entities as the dollar, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the totemic trademarks of corporations.

The only serious attempt to manage the world differently – Communism – was so much worse in almost every conceivable way that nobody has the stomach to try again.

I respect Americans. They seek democracy in everywhere.

To write past events in the present tense adds immediacy to your prose. ~Yvonne Blackwood

The chamber has come to be known as the "Queen's Chamber"; but the name is based on romantic notions and not on any shred of evidence

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

The undercommons "cannot be satisfied with the recognition and acknowledgement generated by the very system that denies a) that anything was ever broken and b) that we deserved to be the broken part.

Theodicy, the philosophers call it: the problem of God's justice. The

Passion belongs to nothing and reason belong to many things that's why reason it is better than passion."

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.