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“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.”
“Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable--and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had become a powerful tradition.”
“It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.”
― Gene Roddenberry
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“Well, I’ve never eaten puffin. I’m not sure taste is predictable.
Except I’d say porgs wouldn’t taste like chicken. Chickens and related birds are odd that their flight muscles are fast-twitch fibers (the white meat) that work explosively for sprints and operate without added oxygen (anaerobic). Fast and furious. But, they need time to recharge after a sprint (recover oxygen and get rid of the lactic acid produced). There is not as much blood flow through the fast-twitch muscles as slow-twitch muscles, which are darker red in appearance (the dark meat). Slow-twitch muscles work for long periods of time and need oxygen from blood flow to keep them operating. So, fast-twitch muscle (white meat) has less blood, and has a more delicate flavor than slow-twitch muscle (dark meat).
Most flying birds have deep red muscle that allows them to fly large distances. They typically taste more like liver than chicken (plus a gamey flavor).
It’s hard to say what a porg’s lifestyle is from the brief clips I’ve seen. But, if they’re supposed to be seabirds and can fly, then they’re probably all slow-twitch muscle, just like real seabirds. Swimming and flying takes constant effort. Living in the ocean means probably eating smaller ocean-going life, which on Earth usually means fish at some level. Many birds that eat mostly fish tend to taste fishy (or so I’ve heard).
So, I would think there’s a good chance porgs would be dense, dark red meat tasting like goose or liver with a gamey and fishy edge.”
― Kevin McGowan, Project Manager of Distance Learning in Bird Biology at Cornell Lab of Ornithology, on what the porgs of Star Wars fame likely taste like
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“I'm one that will cause people to scratch their heads in wonderment in search of their hollow hearts and look in their souls and wonder, 'Where did he come from? What is he?'”
“A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.”
“All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.”
“I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.”
“If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.”
"If you are not a myth whose reality are you? If you are not a reality whose myth are you?"
“If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes.”
“First of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy because of it. They need to smile and realize how ridiculous everything is. A race without a sense of humor is in bad shape. A race needs clowns. In earlier days people knew that. Kings always had a court jester around. In that way he was always reminded how ridiculous things are. I believe that nations too should have jesters, in the congress, near the president, everywhere.....You could call me the Jester of the Creator. The whole world, all the disease and misery, it's all ridiculous.”
― Sun Ra
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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
"I don't think the human race will survive the next 1,000 years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."
― Stephen Hawking
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"Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering."
"When you are married to the truth, you live in an eternal honeymoon."
"You are the king in your own reality; you are responsible for your own dream of life."
"The truth is the real you; it's your own integrity."
― Don Miguel Ruiz
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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
― Howard Zinn
After the first atomic bomb test, Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad-Gita: "I have become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds." Edward Teller was more earthy. He said "Oh, my God! What have we done?"
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*Squelch*
-A Gelatinous Cube
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"Thorgrim and a few other grudge-bearing men were scouting around Gunnar Hámundarson's house. Gunnar woke up and stabbed Thorgrim through a gap with his halberd. Thorgrim returned to his comrades, who asked if Gunnar was home. "Find that out for yourselves, but this I am sure of: that his halberd is at home," he said, and fell down dead."
- English translation of Njáls saga (from Old Norse, circa 1280)
"We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things. Now we can shoot at those bastards from every direction."
- Colonel (later Lieutenant General) Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, United States Marine Corps, Battle of Chosin Reservoir (Korean War, December 1950) [possibly apocryphal]
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Alan Rickman would have made a good Captain Hook. But then, Alan Rickman would have made a good "just-about-anything".Smee gets the 'I had an idea!' look;
Smee - "I've just had an apostrophe!"
Hook - "I think you mean an epiphany."
Smee - "Lightning! Lightning has struck my brain!"
Hook - "That must certainly hurt."
"My great-granddad was part of [Archduke] Franz Ferdinand's bodyguard. Good job, Great-Granddad."
- Georg Rockall-Schmidt
"I was in a festival in Hay-On-Wye ... [and] one of the speakers was Sir Martin Rees. Sir Martin is the professor of cosmology and astrophysics at Cambridge University, and he's also got the wonderful title of the Astronomer Royal, which even a republican like myself can imagine wanting to have. Just as I live in Washington, I have never wanted a political job, but if I was to be given grace and favor by the president, it would be in the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco [sic]."
- Christopher Hitchens, address at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney (Australia), 2009
The above is the correct attribution, but I have also heard the "punchline" of this quote incorrectly (though understandably) attributed to Hunter S. Thompson.
A powerful tool that can be used for weal or woe as its wielders decide.
Well... let's just say that you're not wrong. In my opinion, at least.
"The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom."
- Jon Stewart
Dorian (Ramon Tikaram) - "Cole, you should be careful dancing around with those daggers when I'm throwing fire."
Cole (James Norton) - "It won't hurt me. It's friendly fire."
Dorian - "That doesn't always mean what you think it means."
- Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014)
Inquisition commander - "What are the chief weapons of the inquisition?"
Inquisition soldier #1 - "Surprise, Ser!"
Inquisition commander - "What else?"
Inquisition soldier #2 - "Fear!"
- Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014), referencing a certain episode of a certain television show
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Alan Rickman would have made a good Captain Hook. But then, Alan Rickman would have made a good "just-about-anything".Smee gets the 'I had an idea!' look;
Smee - "I've just had an apostrophe!"
Hook - "I think you mean an epiphany."
Smee - "Lightning! Lightning has struck my brain!"
Hook - "That must certainly hurt."
Well...
I did say, "just about". There may be exceptions.