"Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe."

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Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Way Station”, p.168, Open Road Media

Clifford D. Simak

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“If the objective of testing were to prove that a program is free of bugs, then not only would testing be practically impossible, but it would also be theoretically impossible.”
“Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.”
“All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit!”
“Politicians step up and say, "This is what were going to do: we're going to set aside 450 million dollars for a mentorship program for orphaned youth," and so on and so forth, and it sounds great in this romanticized vision of what these alleged leaders are going to do for the alleged meek. But it doesn't examine: why are these kids orphans?”
“Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.”
“There's always stories about cute girls in the gym, I'm just not one of those people.”

Source : "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.
“We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
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