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Star Trek
by Gene Roddenberry
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.
Captain James T. Kirk
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When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The Snake
by Oscar Brown Jr.
On her way to work one morning
Down the path ‘longside the lake
A tender-hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen snake
His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew
“Oh well,” she cried, “I’ll take you in and I’ll take care of you”
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of silk
And laid him by thе fireside with some honеy and some milk
She hurried home from work that night, and soon as she arrived
She found that pretty snake she’d taken in had been revived
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
She clutched him to her bosom, “You’re so beautiful,” she cried
“But if I hadn’t brought you in, by now you might have died”
She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight
Instead of saying thanks, that snake gave her a vicious bite
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
“I saved you,” cried the woman
“And you’ve bitten me, but why?
And you know your bite is poisonous and now I’m gonna die”
“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in”
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
“Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
“Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Paul Atreides
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The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen Hawking
Watch out for wormholes: you never know what may come out of them.
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert Heinlein
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I support the Constitution of the United States. If the government won't comply with the supreme law of the land, what good will another law do?
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from the government.
Thomas Paine
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Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government.
The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson
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There were no portable phones either. Good times for sure.
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The River War, first edition, Vol II, pages 248-50
by Gregory Smith
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled— the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
Winston Churchill
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The Stars Are Ours
by Andre Norton
Frontiers of any type, physical or mental, are but a challenge to our breed. Nothing can stop the questing of men--not even Man. If we will it, not only the wonders of space, but the very stars are ours.
Techneer Vidor Chang
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Don't hold on to someone who's leaving, otherwise you won't meet the one who's coming.
Carl Jung
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison
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I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.
Carl Jung
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Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting...Holy Shit! What a Ride!
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
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How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
by Gene Roddenberry
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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If you are a gifted person, it doesn't mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back.
Carl Jung
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For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us.
Gordon Cooper
US Astronaut
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Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes...known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison
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To start with, most kings are more interested in the science of war...than in useful peacetime techniques. They're far more anxious, by hook or by crook, to acquire new kingdoms than to govern their existing ones properly.
Sir Thomas More
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
Confucius
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Painful reminder of a beach in Florida.
Listening to mom, every other day.
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The Secret Teachings of All Ages
by Manly P. Hall
When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear.
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The Man in the Arena
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The great tragedy of science--the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas H. Huxley
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'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past.
First freedom and then Glory - when that fails,
Wealth, vice, corruption - barbarism at last.
And History, with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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No wonder the big bang theory sounds so much like the story of creation.
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Who cares about them? What's our national interest there? Just be Pro-America.
Uncle Shmuel's MO for thousands of years has been to get other people to fight their battles for them.
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Time Enough for Love
by Robert Heinlein
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
Lazarus Long
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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard
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Buy an airplane. Become a pilot.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
You see in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig.
You dig.
Blondie
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Group punishment for whoever influenced the supreme court. Simple but effective.
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She can vacuum a rug like nobody's business.
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert Heinlein
I am free, no matter what rules surround me.
If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them;
if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Willfully?
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Every other day. Funny someone memed about it.
Publicly.
Be scrapple.
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Charles Darwin called it natural selection.
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The Matrix
by Larry and Andy Wachowski
I didn't say it would be easy.
I just said it would be the truth.
Morpheus
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Us? Was this meme created by a government person?
Wisdom. Take this to heart.
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Exactly my little league experience.
Publicly.
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These liberal women need a few stiff doses of vitamin D.
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C'mon San Andreas fault.
Sounds like America.
Hide a few dozen medieval weapons around the island.
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This is a real product, not made from fish. It is more like spaghetti O's.
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Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true!
Aesop’s Fables (circa 260 BC)
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Fresh bunny poo looks more like the cereal in the picture.
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Hat tip to fellow former weapons guys out there.
You could always tell which scouts had dads.
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I would choose my dogs over most everybody. Don't take it personally unwelcome refugees. Just leave.
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Then a brisk walk is just the right speed to cropdust a room.
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Decades ago.
That's why I don't bother.
Fact check. If you and your neighbor each live in the center of an 8 acre square lot, your homes are only 590 feet apart. To be five miles from any edge, over 50,000 acres is needed.
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The years gradually teach things the days don’t notice.
Matthew Piepenburg
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It's only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
Thomas Sowell
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Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Machiavelli
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We’re at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it’s been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.
Ronald Reagan
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The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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