"He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it."

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Source : Poul Anderson (2015). “Starfarers”, p.483, Open Road Media

Poul Anderson

#Men Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Cosmos Quotes

“I am not one of the great journalists of my time.”
“I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.”
“We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.”

Source : "Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 13, 2011.
“It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he [Wilkinson] does... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts”
“I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.”
“To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.”
“The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.”

Source : "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.
“From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough. We have a cultural tendency toward denial, but being affluent, we strangle ourselves with what we can buy. We gave only to look at the houses we build to see how we build *against* space, the way we drink against pain and loneliness. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there.”

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