"At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel."

-- Isaac Asimov

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“A military without political training is a potential criminal.”
“When youâ€™re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that canâ€™t make up their minds. Perhaps itâ€™s a way of admitting that things canâ€™t ever bear the same certainty again.”
“Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.”

Source : Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.143, Penguin
“Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights.”
“The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.”
“May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.”

Source : "Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek: with Notes, Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch". Book by Plutarch, rtansl. by John Langhorne and William Langhorne, p. 225, 1850.
“I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is a beggar, or God in person, and whether he is ignorant or wise, they are all of equal right. No one has more right than any other, and nobody is more than any other.”
“The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universeâ€”even a positivist oneâ€”remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.”

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