"Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing."

-- Robert Ballard

#Ocean Exploration Quotes #Southern Quotes #Hemisphere Quotes

“The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be wonâ€¦ but one we dare not lose.”

Source : C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.32, Penguin
“Purpose is what gives life meaning.”
“We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.”
“It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.”
“The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.”

Source : May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.96, Library of America
“It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.”
“Make us eternal truths receive, And practice all that we believe: Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee.”
“There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to”

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