Thomas Mallon Quotes

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• John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be…
• The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine (if you still…
• Stars, of course, are too hot to support life, so wherever life might exist in the universe, it has to be on planets or moons…
• The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
• The green appeal of solar sailing - traveling by light, once chemical propellants have done their dirty job of orbital insertion - ought to be…
• Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November,…
• I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good whatsoever,…
• Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was…
• Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

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