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 |
The Snake
by Oscar Brown Jr.
On her way to work one morning |
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 |
The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen Hawking Watch out for wormholes: you never know what may come out of them. |
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. Robert Heinlein |
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?
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from the government. Thomas Paine |
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 |
There were no portable phones either. Good times for sure.
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 |
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 |
Don't hold on to someone who's leaving, otherwise you won't meet the one who's coming. Carl Jung |
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. James Madison |
I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become. Carl Jung |
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! |
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. Plato |
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 |
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 |
If you are a gifted person, it doesn't mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back. Carl Jung |
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 |
