"Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from being eaten. Thinking less than that, as humans do, will almost guarantee it."

-- John Ralston Saul

#Thinking Quotes #Guarantees Quotes #Predator Quotes

“The great thing about sci-fi is that the fans and the audience are unlike any other genre out there. They are constantly looking for great content and good stuff. They don't care where it comes from, they'll latch onto it.”
“Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know”
“Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.”
“He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.”
“I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.”
“High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars... high over the stars sweep the angels...”
“He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.”

Source : Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco, William Nicholson (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit”, p.32, Courier Corporation
“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”

Source : Supers and Supermen (1920) "Some Historians"

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