"We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe"

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Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Heritage of Stars”, p.95, Open Road Media

Clifford D. Simak

#Abhorrent Quotes #Welcome Quotes #Logic Quotes

“Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.”
“The Nazi leadersâ€¦.treated Germany like a conquered land, a colony to be used and abused without consideration, to be exploited to the full, and its national spirit, happiness and wellbeing to be sedulously ignored”
“Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure clichÃ©. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates. ...”

Source : Paul Fussell (1982). “Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars”, p.38, Oxford University Press
“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.”
“It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.”
“You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I like hanging out with people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whether youre a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or youre a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, youve got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.”

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