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“There is no such thing as reconstituted lemon juice, only reconstituted taste buds.”
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“I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.”
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“Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die.”
Source : Robert Zubrin (1999). “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization”, Tarcher
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“Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.”
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“In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.”
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“To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.”
Source : Robert Owen (1845). “The Book of the New Moral World: Containing the Rational System of Society, Founded on Demonstrable Facts, Developing the Constitution and Laws of Human Nature and of Society”, p.82
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“Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,—but she always pays.”
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“There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.”
Source : "Is Jack Kemp Mr. Right?" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 1987.