Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

—Robert J. Sawyer in Calculating God

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About Robert J. Sawyer

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Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian and American writer of science fiction. He is the author of 25 published novels, and his short fiction has appeared in magazines and journals such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, and Nature, in addition to...

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Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

—Robert J. Sawyer

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

—Robert J. Sawyer

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

—Robert J. Sawyer

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

—Robert J. Sawyer

Honor does not have to be defended.

—Robert J. Sawyer

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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained.… They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

—Walt Whitman

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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

—Mother Teresa

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

—George Orwell

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Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

—E. F. Schumacher

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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

—Carl Sandburg

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