"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

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Source : "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

Arthur C. Clarke

#Life Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Two Quotes

“I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen.”
“Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.”
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
“In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.”
“I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.”
“To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.”
“I've never used chat-up lines; I don't have the gift of the gab.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I believe that no matter how many mistakes weÂ’ve made; how badly weÂ’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected weÂ’ve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.”

Source : Dave Pelzer (2010). “Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life”, p.10, Hachette UK

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