"To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

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“I try not to look back too much, but sometimes it's nice to reflect.”
“I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.”

Source : "Christian Slater: Clean Slater". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. July 1, 1993.
“Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.”
“How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.”
“If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.”
“Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.”
“When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.”

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