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Charles Dickens

"Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first; whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to establish reason for her distrust, or because she sought to free him from it; was as yet dark to her own heart. But at most times he occupied a great amount of her attention."

-- Charles Dickens

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“Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots”
“An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it.”
“All God's creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures.”
“Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.”
“I am just like any other girl, a sucker for romance.”
“From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can see how the sphere rotates, and how within a few hours it shows all its sides successively ... and we shall observe various points on the surface of the Earth for several minutes and from different sides very closely. This picture is so majestic, attractive and infinitely varied that I wish with all my soul that you and I could see it.”

Source : "The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth". Book by William E. Burrows (p. 147), July 10, 2007.
“Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.”
“When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.”

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