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  1. Ben Bova _ Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    Population growing, swelling, bursting beyond the capability of the world to sustain so many human beings. Six billion people. Eight. Ten. Most of them starving, diseased, born in miserable poverty and dying in miserable poverty; surviving only long enough to make still more babies, half a million more each day.
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  2. Ben Bova _ Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    It should be for you a sacred day when one of your people dies. You must then keep his soul as I shall teach you…for if this soul is kept, it will increase in you your concern and love for your neighbor.
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  3. Ben Bova _ The Rock Rats

    reired but he still runs Selene, the power behind the throne. He ifts an eyebrow and everybody hops to do what he wants." As they walked through the lush shrubbery and trees that filled he grotto, Verwoerd said, "I wonder what it is that he wants now?" Humphries threw a sour glance at her. "That's what I pay you o find out." The cocktail reception was out in the open, under the dome of he Grand Plaza next to the amphitheater that housed all of Scene's theatrical productions. When Humphries and Verwoerd arived, Pancho Lane was standing near the bar deep in earnest conversation with Douglas Stavenger. Nearly twice Humphries's age, Doug Stavenger still looked as young and vigorous as a thirty-year-old. His body teemed with naomachines that kept him healthy and youthful. Twice they had naved him from death, repairing damage to his body that ordinarily vould have been lethal.
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  4. Ben Bova _ Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    You must love your neighbor as yourself, and you must love yourself as you love your God. Otherwise you get bureaucrats and swindlers and opinion polls and computer-generated graphs in place of helping the needy. Cold impersonal bureaucracies do not solve problems.
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  5. Ben Bova _ Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    A test. Other races on other worlds have tried it and failed. Wiped themselves out. Overpopulated to the point of total ecological collapse. Destroyed themselves in wars. We've got to make sure that the human race discovers nanotechnology in the right way and develops it wisely, usefully. Not for power. Not for weapons. Humanely. Then we'll be ready to meet the other races that have succeeded, that have passed this test and become truly intelligent, truly adult.
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  6. Ben Bova _ Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    Krishna: "The wise grieve not for those who live; and they grieve not for those who die-for life and death shall pass away.
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  7. Ben Bova _ Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    If the world should stop revolving, spinning slowly down to dust "I'd spend the end with you, "And when the world was through "Then one by one the stars would all go out, "Then you and I would simply fly away.
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  8. Ben Bova _ Nebula Awards Showcase 2008

    suffice it to say that after accidently setting the Walden woods ablaze-some estimates hold that more than three hundred acres were consumed-our First Naturalist repaired to the top of Fair Haven Hill to admire his own private conflagration. I thought folks ought to know about this. You see, as a student I was force-fed Walden and much of it disagreed with me. I will admit that never has the Luddite point of view been advanced quite so eloquently. And while I agree that simplicity can be a virtue and that cultivation of one's inner resources is necessary for the good life, it seems clear to me that the habit of thought which Thoreau urges on us is antithetical to the enterprise of science fiction.
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  9. Ben Bova _ Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    Isaac Newton had discovered that for every action there is an opposite reaction. Popular wisdom declared that every dark cloud has a silver lining.
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  10. Ben Bova _ Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    Do you really think that you're some sort of superior creature? Do you think that your ability to make money, to steal and lie and murder, places you above normal men?
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  11. Ben Bova _ Nebula Awards Showcase 2008

    So I started to wonder if I actually could reenter the unicorn's world…at which point Sooz came into my head and the story just happened. It flowed. It was the exact opposite of my experience writing The Last Unicorn. I locked onto her voice, the voice of this nine-and-a-half-year-old girl who was telling the story from the first sentence, and I just followed her. It was one of the very rare occasions where I felt from beginning to end that I knew what I was doing.
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  12. Ben Bova _ Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
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