"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Change Quotes #Uplifting Quotes #Spiritual Quotes

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”
“There are lots of random blog posters on places like Gamespot or NeoGAF or whatever who show a clearer understanding of Braid than people who are all, "I'm all about games, and narrative and meaning, and I write a blog just to tell you about how I analyze all these things." Those people have the same hit rate as your general forum poster. So that's given me a cynical response to that whole community, which is just that, "Guys, are you sure you're qualified to do this?" And that sounds asshole-ish, and mean and snarky, but that's just how I'm feeling right now.”
“Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.”
“Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort.”
“What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.”
“If I give dollars to some charity, nobody cares. I mean, it helps the charity, but nobody cares. But if the Dodgers do the same thing, they bring more focus to issues, and that makes it better.”
“Super-cali-fragalistic-expiali-docious, Docious-ali-expi-fragalistic-cali-super. Cancun...catch me in the room, eatin' grouper.”
“Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.”

Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.93, Macmillan

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