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“Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.”
Source : "Doomsday averted" by Caitlín R. Kiernan, greygirlbeast.livejournal.com. January 16, 2005. 
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“You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.”
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“All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.”
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“So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.”
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“Most Achievers I Know Are People Who Have Made A Strong And Deep Dedication to Pursuing A Particular Goal. That Dedication Took A Tremendous Amount Of Effort.”
Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.
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“Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.”
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“As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.”
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“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”
