"The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next."

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William Faulkner

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“In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.”
“His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.”
“I know for my family, the only question that we will be answering is how many people are in our home. We won't be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that.”
“When we have an effort made at sanctions involving many other nations it has a potential of greater impact on Russia and discouraging Putin.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because I think we need it.”
“If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect.”
“Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.”

Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 44, 1985.
“I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.”

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