"What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?"

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Source : Hal Clement (2002). “Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories”, p.125, Macmillan

Hal Clement

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“The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
“Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do.”
“If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.”
“Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.3, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“Every adult needs a child to teach; itâ€™s the way adults learn.”
“there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.”

Source : Josephine Pinckney (1948). “Great Mischief”, New York : Viking Press
“You either control your mind or it controls you.”
“I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature.”

Source : "Sirius" by Olaf Stapledon, (Chapter IX), 1944.

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