"About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars."

-- James Nicoll

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“There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.”
“When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.”
“I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.”

Source : "Kristin Cavallari Says ‘Hills’ Is Fake: ‘Nothing... Is Real’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2010.
“There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort ... The need of work is in me.”
“Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior.”

Source : Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books
“You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor”
“Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”

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