"I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program."

-- Kevin J. Anderson

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“I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.”
“There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.”

Source : Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
“He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.”
“By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.”
“Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.”
“The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.”
“America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.”

Source : Gunnar Myrdal (1995). “Black and African-American Studies: American Dilemma, the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy”, p.7, Transaction Publishers
“The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste.”

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