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- I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a… — Isaac Asimov
- A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this… — Leonardo da Vinci
- Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can… — David Hume
- Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
- Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as… — Leigh Brackett
- Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely… — George W. Bush
- There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect… — Ben Jonson
- We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one… — Swami Vivekananda
- I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after… — Andrew Wyeth
- You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party… — Benjamin Disraeli
- Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They… — Yanis Varoufakis