Donald A. Wollheim famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.
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Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.
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I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its planetary habitat combined with a certain level of technological ability... I think it is a built-in gene-directed drive for the spreading of the species and its continuation.
-- Donald A. Wollheim
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Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
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A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.
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First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'
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The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.
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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.
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I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.
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