"If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!"

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Source : Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1908). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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“Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.”

Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”
“It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.”
“It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.”
“The path that is best for you is the path that keeps the best of you in play.”
“What do you conceive God to be like? Some would say to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant leap of faith - but I am convinced that belief in God is a far more reasonable position than atheism. Nature, the personal experience of literally billions of people, and something innate in the heart of man all testify to the existence of God.”
“Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.”
“Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.”

Source : Savitri Devi (2010). “The Lightning and the Sun”, p.7, Lulu.com
“A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.”

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