"Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it."

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Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.93, Macmillan

Vernor Vinge

#Knowing Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“I love seeing Houston. Houston has a great style and energy.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!”
“It was a rivalry-revenge game for us. They beat us very badly on our field last year.”
“It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.”
“I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.”

Source : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”
“I don't want to consider myself a TV5 favorite, but it's a blessing that I have more shows than the others.”
“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.”
“By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder] and Aram A. Boornazian [mathematician with S. Ross and Co. in Boston] have found evidence that the sun has been contracting about 0.1% per century during that time, corresponding to a shrinkage rate of about 5 feet per hour. And digging deep into historical records, Eddy has found 400-year-old eclipse observations that are consistent with such a shrinkage.”

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