Nikora Ge Quotes & Sayings

The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources of energy - for example black holes, or even the neighbourhoods of large stars, which routinely boil off the energy of ten thousand suns. These are the destinations they may seek. — Seth Shostak

In this world, therefore, the dominion of good men is profitable, not so much for themselves as for human affairs. But the dominion of bad men is hurtful chiefly to themselves who rule, for they destroy their own souls by greater license in wickedness; while those who are put under them in service are not hurt except by their own iniquity. For to the just all the evils imposed on them by unjust rulers are not the punishment of crime, but the test of virtue. Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices; of which vices when the divine Scripture treats, it says, For of whom any man is overcome, to the same he is also the bond-slave. — Augustine Of Hippo

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky. — Jeremy London

And then what?" she forced herself to ask, even though she already knew the answer. "What were you going to do after you and Max were done with each other?" It seemed obscene somehow, the way he kept bringing Max into this. Which was silly, of course. "We were going to part friends. Go back to the way things always were. No expectations. No embarrassment." He — Virna DePaul

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older. — Diana Quick

The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10,000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing. — Matt Chandler

I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we're about, anyway. Alexander, Alexander, Alexander. But it's about the brotherhood. Shaun's a great player, but we have a lot of weapons around here. — Chuck Darby

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts. — Jean-Paul Marat

Having once adopted us and enlightened our minds by his Word, he keeps the torch of the Word blazing before our eyes, that we may in faith keep our minds upon the judgment and punishment of evil which the impious confidently ignore. — John Calvin

My truth could be very different than your truth. — Debasish Mridha