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1. "The mind is the reality. You are what you think." ~ Alfred Bester
2. "You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you...'[...]Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to make you think. Take a challenge to make you great. Rest of the time you sit around lazy, you. Pigs, you! All right, God damn you! I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great. Blow yourselves to Christ gone or come and find me, Gully Foyle, and I make you men. I make you great. I give you the stars." ~ Alfred Bester
3. "Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people." ~ Alfred Bester
4. "Gully Foyle is my nameAnd Terra is my nationDeep space is my dwelling placeThe stars my destination" ~ Alfred Bester
5. "Eight, sir; seven, sir;Six, sir; five, sir;Four, sir; Three, sir;Two, sir; one!Tenser, said the Tensor.Tenser, said the Tensor.Tension, apprehension,And dissension have begun." ~ Alfred Bester
6. "This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it." ~ Alfred Bester
7. "If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep." ~ Alfred Bester
8. "There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot.Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."Why can't we all move forward together?"Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow."Who leads?"The men who must...driven men, compelled men."Freak men."You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory." ~ Alfred Bester
9. "I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying." ~ Alfred Bester
10. "Make it a human war,' she said fiercely. 'You're the first not to be deceived by my looks. Oh God! The boredom of the chivalrous knights and their milk-maid passion for the fairy tale princess. But I'm not like that ... inside. I'm not. I'm not. Never. Make it a savage war between us. Don't win me ... destroy me!" ~ Alfred Bester
11. "..eger bir adamin topluma karsi gelecek yetenegi ve cesareti varsa, o, kesinlikle ortalamanin üzerinde demektir. onu durdurmak istersiniz. onu düzeltir ve daha degerli bir hale dönüstürürsünüz, kazandirirsiniz. ondan kim vazgeçebilir? bunu yapmayi yeterince sürdürürseniz, geriye sadece koyunlar kalir." ~ Alfred Bester
12. "LABIRENTI ORTADAN KALDIR.KARMASIK YOLLARI YIK.BILMECEYI SIL.(x² o y³ uzay/d! zaman)DAGIT(eylemler, ifadeler, etkenler, bölümler, güçler, örnekler, köktenciler, özdeslikler, denklemler, diziler, çesitlemeler, permütasyonlar, determinantlar ve çözümler)YOK ET.(elektron, proton, nötron, meson ve foton)SIL.(cayley, henson, lillienthal, chanute, langley, wright, turnbul ve s&erson)BOZUP ÇIKAR.(nebulalar, kümeler, akintilar, ikililer, devler, ana diziler ve ak cüceler)YAY.(baliklar, amfibiler, kuslar, memeliler ve insan)ORTADAN KALDIR.YIK.SIL.DAGIT.BÜTÜN ESITLIKLERI SIL.SONSUZLUK ESITTIR SIFIR.ARTIK YOK-" ~ Alfred Bester
13. "Why is life? Don't ask about it. Live it." ~ Alfred Bester
14. "The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality." ~ Alfred Bester
15. "I'm treating you like a relative. I don't pay enough for the privilege." ~ Alfred Bester
16. "Now don't warp your orbit, Mac." ~ Alfred Bester
17. "The acid of fury ran through him, eating away the brute patience and sluggishness that had made a cipher of Gully Foyle, precipitating a chain of reactions that would make an infernal machine of Gully Foyle. He was dedicated." ~ Alfred Bester
18. "If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy." ~ Alfred Bester
19. "I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts." ~ Alfred Bester
20. "It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more." ~ Alfred Bester
21. "I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way clear through this morass." ~ Alfred Bester
22. "Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief" ~ Alfred Bester
23. "There's got to be mnore to life than just living," Foyl said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.""Why can't we all move forward together?""Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow.""Who leads?""The men who must... driven men, compelled men.""Freak men.""You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.""Thank you very much.""My pleasure, sir.""You've saved the day.""Always a lovely day somewhere, sir," the robot beamed. Then it fizzed, jangled, and collapsed." ~ Alfred Bester

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