The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the 21st century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
-Paulo Coelho
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Evil men sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden. Their roots wrap round the stones and hold fast to every rock.
-Jesus Christ
A woman's head is always influenced by her heart; but a man's heart by his head.
-Lady Marguerite Blessington
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
