"The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse."

-- Brian Stableford

#Technology Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.”
“Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.”
“I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.”
“I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.”
“Why did Americans smile so often? Was it out of politeness or because of a gay disposition? Whatever it was, I for one had never been spoiled with smiles. I found it very pleasant! ... I was beginning to understand that with Americans smiling was, as with healthy infants, a natural need. And my reaction was to respond in the same way.”

Source : SVETLANA ALLILUYEVA (1969). “ONLY ONE YEAR”
“Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse â€” came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra”
“Every man has at times in his mind the ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character. * * * Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.”

Source : "A Lesson for the Day; or The Christianity of Christ, of the Church, and of Society". "The Dial" Magazine, (p. 196), October 1940.
“Our kitchen is warm; it's who we are. And it has everything. Honestly, I could get rid of the rest of the house and just live in the kitchen.”

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