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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.
Jean M. Auel
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So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
Frederick Pollock
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During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
George William Norris
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I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.
Theresa May
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
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Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
George R. R. Martin
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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.


Menander
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I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.


Amy Carter
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.


Damon Lindelof
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.


Thomas Paine
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
Nnedi Okorafor
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I'm a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.


Robert Kazinsky
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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.


Steven Spielberg
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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.


Frederik Pohl
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Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.


Greg Bear
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So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.


Anna Neagle
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.


Carl Jung
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
Barry Eisler
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.


Quentin Tarantino
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