"That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third."

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Orson Scott Card

#Children Quotes #Night Quotes #Race Quotes

“You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless.”
“The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.”

Source : Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.
“Consciously cultivate the ordinary.”
“Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act structure. The content makes the play. I feel the form is simply dressing, because ultimately, you want to communicate to the audience, and sometimes the best way to do that is to present a provocative idea in a format that is comfortable for them to receive. Then the idea will come through directly, right in solar plexus. After all, I want to make a living as an artist, and that means speaking to the audience in a form they can understand.”
“Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it”

Source : William V. Shannon (1989). “The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait”, p.24, Univ of Massachusetts Press
“If you think little about yourself, you will have rest wherever you reside.”
“There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.”
“I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.”

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