"Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie."

-- Hyman Rickover

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“Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent.”
“Color is a major element in scale. A small room can have a larger look by the use of closely related values, hues, and intensity. A large room can be made to look smaller by marked contrasts of color and value, hue, and intensity. Value is one of the most important elements. Whether light or dark, little value contrast makes for unity, and sharper contrast makes for stronger punctuation.”
“This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got.”
“A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now that's a question.”

Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". "Stardust", m.imdb.com. 2007.
“All I know of morality I learned from football”
“The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.”
“Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly ...”

Source : "The Pasteboard Past" by Witold Rybczynski, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1997.
“A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.”

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