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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high
aims are worth-while. Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of
objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal
gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of
a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment,
the Peace brought by something worth-while.
- Alfred North Whitehead, 1963, in "The History of Manned Space Flight"
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Linux Cookie: 232 of 1140 |
I do not believe that this generation of Americans is willing to resign itself
to going to bed each night by the light of a Communist moon...
- Lyndon B. Johnson
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Linux Cookie: 233 of 1140 |
Life's the same, except for the shoes.
- The Cars
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Linux Cookie: 234 of 1140 |
Purple hum
Assorted cars
Laser lights, you bring
All to prove
You're on the move
and vanishing
- The Cars
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Linux Cookie: 235 of 1140 |
Could be you're crossing the fine line
A silly driver kind of...off the wall
You keep it cool when it's t-t-tight
...eyes wide open when you start to fall.
- The Cars
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Linux Cookie: 236 of 1140 |
Adapt. Enjoy. Survive.
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Linux Cookie: 237 of 1140 |
Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve.
- Anonymous
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Linux Cookie: 238 of 1140 |
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be
lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
- Isaac Asimov
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Linux Cookie: 239 of 1140 |
And the crowd was stilled. One elderly man, wondering at the sudden silence,
turned to the Child and asked him to repeat what he had said. Wide-eyed,
the Child raised his voice and said once again, "Why, the Emperor has no
clothes! He is naked!"
- "The Emperor's New Clothes"
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Linux Cookie: 240 of 1140 |
"Those who believe in astrology are living in houses with foundations of
Silly Putty."
- Dennis Rawlins, astronomer
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