"Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out."

-- Nathan Myhrvold

#Race Quotes #Impact Quotes #Flying Quotes

“The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker,”
“There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.”
“The precondition of success and entry to the top politics is primarily one's will - that is, making one's own decisions, because it means having to leave your home or move your family, quit social networking and build new contacts, [since] central governments are seated in capitals.”
“In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!”
“It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.”
“You soon learn thereâ€™s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.”
“I've always had a feeling that the image is 50% of the emotion that an audience feels and it's subliminal. Yet, how you arrange the elements in front of a camera has an impact on people's belief about that world in some way.”
“The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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