"She smacked him so hard his momma felt it."

-- Rachel Caine

“Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.”
“I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands.”
“Well, who’s real? The living or the dead?”
“I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.”
“Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer”

Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.410, Rowman & Littlefield
“We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.”

Source : Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”
“Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.”
“Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.”

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