"No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in todayâ€™s world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole."

-- Nayef Al-Rodhan

#Humanity Quotes #World Quotes #Today Quotes

“One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.”
“It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one way or another, on every aspect of computers and computerization. And (mark this!) I did it without ever knowing anything at all about computers in any real sense. To this day, I don't. I am totally inept with machinery... on my typewriter I turn out books at the contemptible rate of one a month”
“And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.”
“Sex is not a sin. Many people have complained that this is taking all the fun out of sex.”
“He suddenly became convinced that if he didnâ€™t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.”
“We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.”
“Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.”
“The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.”

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