"But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today."

-- K. Eric Drexler

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Marriage is a leap of faith. You are each other's safety net.”

Source : Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.47, Penguin
“I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.”
“Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.”
“Why do people think that weâ€™re degraded when weâ€™re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?”
“What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.”
“I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.”
“But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.”

Source : Leanda de Lisle, Leanda Lisle (2013). “Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family”, p.27, PublicAffairs
“The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”

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