"As I child, I came to this idea with a horrified fascination. Once upon a time, I wasnâ€™t here. Before that, my parents werenâ€™t here. And before thatâ€¦"

-- John Burnside

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“Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.”
“The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.”
“Love is the tact of every good, The only warmth, the only peace.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1967). “Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge”, p.54, New Directions Publishing
“I think Bitcoin is a massive conceptual and helpful step forward.”
“We need more personnel within our security agencies.”

Source : "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.
“Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.”

Source : Bernice L. McFadden (2015). “The Bernice L. McFadden Collection: Gathering of Waters, Glorious, The Warmest December, and Nowhere Is a Place”, p.11, Akashic Books
“It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.”
“I have no personal interest or gain from this , I am just an actor”

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