"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."

"who would rather go to jail than betray what they believe to be their duty to their fellow workers and the principles which they hold."

"Magic makes for a slippery concept. Like "gender," "race," or any other term that can be picked apart as a social construction—which of course means all of our terms, every attempt at producing order …"

"Victor Raikes, the Tory M.P., who is an able and outspoken reactionary, made a speech which I should have considered a good one if it had referred only to Poland and Jugoslavia.  But after dealing wit…"

"It also became clear why the nations were expected to commence major space enterprises. Henceforth, the raw materials for industrial civilization were to be taken from Earth’s lifeless sisters, not th…"