"Starships are all work and no fun."

-- Charles Stross

“Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.”
“With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.”
“When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.”
“Real divorce takes place without a decree ...”
“The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.”
“I was a child or didn't live through those presidents prior to [Ronald] Reagan, and thus didn't realize how little attention they had paid to the founders.”
“The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.”
“Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.”

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