"There's been a greater awareness among people, especially geeks, that the laws of physics don't allow that much wiggle room in terms of things like faster-than-light travel, time travel, sending people to other planets. It's harder than we were aware a few decades ago. I think there used to be this widespread imagination, this idea that we'd eventually just hop in a rocket and go to Mars."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Charlie Jane Anders

#Thinking Quotes #Light Quotes #Law Quotes

“You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy.”
“Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.”
“In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.”
“Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.”
“I donâ€™t know whatâ€™s happened to you. You used to be such a nice girl. Now youâ€™ve gone all stabby and whatnot.”
“I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.”

Source : "Charges Dropped: Bounty Hunter Duane 'Dog' Chapman Discusses His Legal Ordeal with Mexico". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. August 6, 2007.
“Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.”

Source : Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.16, Profile Books
“Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.”

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