Astroengineers Quotes & Sayings

The so-called second New Deal of 1935 - including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor - represented an effort to meet the rising voices demanding a more aggressive government approach to the collapse of national prosperity. — Robert Dallek

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. - Jose Narosky — Julie Ann Walker

An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist ... Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has neither. — Anton Chekhov

For many feverish years he was burdened with the sensation, an ancient one to be sure, that the incredible sprawl of human history was no more than a pathetically partial record of an infinitely vast and shadowed chronicle of universal metamorphoses. How much greater, then, was the feeling that his own pathetic history formed a practically invisible fragment of what itself was merely an obscure splinter of the infinite. Somehow he needed to excarcerate himself from the claustral dungeon cell of his life. In the end, however, he broke beneath the weight of his aspiration. And as the years passed, the only mystery which seemed worthy of his interest, and his amazement, was that unknown day which would inaugurate his personal eternity, that incredible day on which the sun simply would not rise, and forever would begin. — Thomas Ligotti

Free will exists within each of us. Most people choose not to use their free will, so consequently they rarely alter their karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz

Some people say 'what would happen if we had a Communist Chancellor of the Exchequer?' I would ask in reply, 'what would happen if he had a lot of Fascist or Mosleyite bank chairmen?' In that event it might be thought disadvantageous to have publicity. — Hugh Dalton

A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got. — Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene

Human anatomy is horribly unsuited for outer space. The astroengineers lost sleep over this but not the science fiction writers, who being artists simply didn't mention it. — Stanislaw Lem

A man-of-war is the best ambassador. — Oliver Cromwell

Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet. — Sean Patrick Flanery

You know, Maureen, I seem to have seen that name somewhere." "Home Perm, perhaps. He looks like a hairdresser." Poirot winced. — Agatha Christie

Turtle makes all men equal. — Benjamin Disraeli

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me? — Guru Nanak

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people. — P. J. O'Rourke

When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science.
To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new wisdom. — Toba Beta