Quotes
Authors
Seth Shostak

"There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something to ponder as you watch the famous cantina scene in Star Wars. ... Does this make sense, given the overwhelmingly likely situation that galactic civilizations differ in their level of evolutionary development by thousands or millions of years? Would you share drinks with a trilobite, an ourang-outang, or a saber-toothed tiger? Or would you just arrange to have a few specimens stuffed and carted off to the local museum?"

-- Seth Shostak

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“I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. â€œHere.â€ I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.”
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
“The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident.”
“If this keeps up, weâ€™re going to own Melengar,â€ Hadrian mentioned. â€œWhatâ€™s this we stuff?â€ Royce asked. â€œYouâ€™re retired, remember?â€ â€œOh? So youâ€™ll be leading the Nationalist advance, will you?â€ â€œSixty-forty?â€ Royce proposed.”
“Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources while Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Iran has been a neighbor for millenia, and will continue to be a neighbor for millenia. We have no issue with seeking to develop the best terms we can with Iran.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness in this vale of tears, to a certain amount of the purest joy that earth can giver her children, joy that is tranquil, innocent, uplifting, unfailing.”

Source : Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books
“Always look for your lost ones in trashcans.”

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