"In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity."

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Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.40, Da Capo Press

Norbert Wiener

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“I told my wife the other day, I'm the Halle Berry of the NBA. Everybody wants this, baby. Everybody wants me.”
“We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members of every human grouping would criticize their own past, even before criticizing others.”

Source : "Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel". Book by Israel Shahak, 1997.
“The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.”
“One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.”

Source : D. E. Stevenson (1978). “Listening Valley”
“Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Lifeâ€™s current.”
“If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.”
“Honor does not have to be defended.”

Source : Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.142, Macmillan
“Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.”

Source : Georgie Anne Geyer (1970). “The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America”

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