Top 41 Robert Kroese Quotes
#1. This puzzling discrepancy prompted the development of the controversial cosmological theory known as the Strong Misanthropic Principle, which asserts that the universe exists in order to screw with us.
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#2. How many of these rescue missions have you conducted anyway?" "More than I can count," sniffed the general. "I see," said Rex. "How many fingers am I holding up?
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#3. People like me really shouldn't be allowed to build a people house until we've managed to build a bird house that isn't immediately condemned as uninhabitable by the avian building department.
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#4. You can't rage against the machine; rage is part of the machine.
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#5. These days she tended to think of herself as a Heisenbergian Christian: she believed in the broad outlines of Christianity, but she was unable to pinpoint the specifics of her creed. She was OK with the wave; it was the particles that tended to escape her.
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#6. And I can't promise anything, you understand, but there's always a chance he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean."
"Wow, that would be terrific," I said.
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#7. That's what people used to tell my parents," Verne said. "Why 'Verne'? they'd ask. And my parents would say, 'No, he's just small for his age.
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#8. souls of dead heroes to their glorious afterlife in the Halls of Avandoor, if you believe in that sort of thing.
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#9. I'm sure that creating the cosmos was a great deal of work, but it happened before I got here. I didn't ask for it to be created, I wasn't consulted on the specifics, and I don't intend to pay for it.
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#10. What is that thing? It looks like a model of the human digestive tract made from broken beer bottles and sadness.
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#13. democracy just seemed like the same old thing with a bigger group of idiots running the show.
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#14. One thing I've learned, Sasha," said Rex, "is that no matter how poorly thought out a plan is, there's always a chance it will succeed unless I'm directly involved." "You
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#15. But consciousness (alternately referred to as "awareness") seems to be one of those things that although we know it when we see it, it's impossible to define.
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#16. She's right, thought Boric. I'm a dead man riding a winged bear named Bubbles.
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#17. It was never a good thing when a bad guy started quoting Nietzsche.
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#18. You'd think that Modern Science would have found a cure for the common hangover by now, but evidently Modern Science has been too busy doing things like figuring how to reconfigure DNA and creating artificial gravity. Modern Science doesn't get invited to a lot of parties.
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#19. By most accounts, Boric the Implacable was, while he was alive, an incomparable badass. By all accounts, he was an even bigger badass after he died.
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#20. There is, of course, a lot of disagreement on Earth about whether demons actually exist, what they want, and how much of the tax code they are responsible for.
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#21. If I look back on everything I've done and think, 'I couldn't possibly have done anything differently,' then what's the point in doing anything?
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#22. He was like an idiot savant without the savant part.
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#23. It requires a constant effort to keep people worried about inconsequential issues and unconcerned with important matters.
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#24. The fool sees his own foolishness reflected in the wisdom of the teacher.'" This
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#25. The Christians had then struck back with a decal of a larger fish, labeled "TRUTH," eating the Darwin fish, which distilled Christianity to its core principle: the ultimate devouring of Science by the giant, horrific Jesus-fish.
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#26. It is also said that history is written by the victors. This was particularly true in the Old Realm, where the official historians at the Library of Avaress had been required for centuries to be named Victor.
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#27. You know what your problem is, Sasha?" Rex said. "You always want to have every little detail worked out in advance. You've got to leave some room for improvisation." "My concern, sir, is that you've given such a wide berth to improvisation that you've left no room for planning." "You
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#28. Interagency cooperation was all well and good, but it was understood to be the sport of the aristocracy; rank-and-file workers like Jacob were expected to keep to their own kind.
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#29. The identity of the Antichrist is, of course, less important than the fact that there is an Antichrist. No one cares much what the Antichrist says or does, but they feel better knowing he's around. In this way, he is much like the pope or the United Nations.
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#30. Dead kings were honored in the Six Kingdoms only insofar as they had the good sense to stop walking around above ground.
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#31. This particular ogre, who went by the name Skoorn, was (by ogreish standards) exceedingly clever, and he had developed a taste for what ogres call "screech melons.
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#32. Job was convinced that life wasn't as complicated as everybody made it out to be. He believed that if you were nice to other people and you worked hard, you tended to do OK.
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#33. had they gotten hungry partway through their vandalizing? That seemed like a stunning lack of commitment
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#34. That's right, folks. This is the sort of novel that starts with a fucking Venn diagram. Buckle up, bitches.
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#35. The illusion of free will is straining under the weight of determinism.
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#36. We had become a country that valued security over freedom, power over justice, and war over peace.
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#37. She tried to kill us, Keane."
"You can't take attempted murder personally in this business, Fowler.
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#38. The big questions don't matter if you get all the little ones wrong.
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#39. You know what happened to the last guy to make a pact with Lucifer, right?" "I thought he was still hosting American Idol." "Exactly," said Perp. "A fate worse than death.
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#40. There's no consensus in the mental health community on how to maintain the sanity of a person whose whole existence is fictional.
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#41. For one hour a day, Lucifer took a break from his surveillance to indulge a guilty pleasure: drinking a tall, icy glass of Schweppes ginger ale and watching The O'Reilly Factor.
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