"It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance."

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Source : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

Bernard M. Oliver

#Frustrated Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Anyone observing U.S. politics in recent years could easily conclude that lying about having sex is a serious offense worthy of impeachment, while lying about taking the country to war is hardly worth mentioning.”
“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”
“If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.”
“There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me...”
“We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
“Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.”

Source : "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.
“From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.”
“I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.”

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