Top 24 George R. Stewart Quotes
#2. The situation was much as if some profit-making organizations had grafted themselves upon the public-school system.
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#4. History was an artist, maintaining the idea but changing the details, like a composer keeping the same theme but dulling it to a minor or lifting by an octave, now crooning it with violins, now blaring it on trumpets.
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#5. When the opportunity was at your hand, you did not dare to seize it. When the opportunity was lost, it became precious.
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#6. A certain amount of looting, particularly of liquor stores was reported.
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#7. It is a strange thing," he thought, "to be an old god. They worship you, and yet they mistreat you. If you do not want to do what they wish, they make you. It is not fair.
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#8. A notable bacteriologist indicated that the emergence of some new disease had always been a possibility which had worried the more far-thinking epidemiologists.
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#9. It's better," he thought in words, remembering some bit of reading, "to have no opinion of God at all than to have one that is unworthy of Him.
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#10. In that world, those with seeing eyes could only blunder about, but the blind man would be at home, and now instead of being the one who was guided by others, he might be one the one to whom the others clung for guidance.
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#11. The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.
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#12. Then, though his sight was now very dim, he looked again at the young men. "They will commit me to the earth," he thought. "Yet I also commit them to the earth. There is nothing else by which men live. Men go and come, but earth abides.
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#13. Why we Americans should be so dendrophilic in our homes, and so dendrophobic in our business-districts is another subject of study which should be referred to our anthropologists.
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#14. Men have been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise'- old British man in Earth Abides
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#15. As once, when the armies of the empire were shattered and the strong barbarians poured in upon the soft provincials, so now the fierce weeds pressed in to destroy the pampered nursling's of man.
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#16. As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war - but ideas!
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#17. It has never happened!" cannot be construed to mean, "It can never happen!" - as
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#18. The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.
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#19. You used to have the jokes about never fixing the roof until it rained. People were undoubtedly the same now, or worse. They might well wait until something happened that forced them to act; that something would almost certainly be unpleasant - most likely, serious. Yet
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#20. The original route, whether called U. S. 40 or something else, will furnish the main-traveled road until someone disproves the geometrical proposition that a straight line is the shortest distance between points.
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#21. Man has been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise.
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#23. Yes," he said, "but we are on the ground here; this is our place; he comes breaking in; he must adapt himself to us; not we to him.
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#24. Crusoe's religious preoccupations seemed boring and rather silly.
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