"We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

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“There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.”
“When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.”

Source : Calvin Trillin (2011). “Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff”, p.21, Random House
“I would be content with any job, however thankless, in any quarter, however remote, if I had the chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and a solitary place glad.”
“I had headaches for over 30 years until I tried chiropractic. They have completely disappeared.”
“Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.”
“We learned sexual technique from our dog. He taught how to beg, and he taught my wife how to roll over and play dead.”
“I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.”
“My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.”

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