"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."

-- Larry Niven

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“Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.”
“The world does not owe us a living, we owe the world a living, our own.”

Source : John Beuhrens, Forrest Church (1998). “A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism”, p.15, Beacon Press
“The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.”
“The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.”

Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”
“The reason God made man before woman was that he didn't want any suggestions.”
“I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our city's history and to envision its great place in our future.”
“When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.”
“How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”

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