"We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."

-- Carl Sagan

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“Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.”
“Racist writing is a craft failure.”
“Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.”

Source : "Romney Fires Back At Gingrich". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 8, 2011.
“I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.”

Source : William Augustus Muhlenberg (1871). “"I Would Not Live Alway."”, p.16
“How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins.”
“An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents...”

Source : Alec Guinness (1986). “Blessings in Disguise”, New York : Knopf
“I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.”
“Women rule our lives, don't they?”

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