"Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe."

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Source : Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.156, Hachette UK

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

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“There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.”
“A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.”
“It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.”

Source : Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.
“Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.”
“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”

Source : "Peter's Almanac". Book by Laurence J. Peter. Entry for September 24, 1982.
“Who needs enemies when you've got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?”
“Half-baked effort is almost as good as no effort put in at all. Always seek to do your best. Good things always have a way of finding those who put forth their best even when their situation seems bleak.”
“Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.”

Source : Bob Gill (2003). “Graphic Design As a Second Language”, p.38, Images Publishing

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