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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da7f139 | Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other. | out-of-context science-fiction | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 4df542d | The extraordinary meeting of the Space Advisory Council was brief and stormy. Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| be92abe | This was the fundamental problem with rockets--and no one had ever discovered any alternative for deep-space propulsion. It was just as difficult to lose speed as to acquire it, and carrying the necessary propellant for deceleration did not merely double the difficulty of a mission; it squared it. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 00ec668 | Astronomy was full of such intriguing but meaningless coincidences. The most famous was the fact that, from the Earth, both Sun and Moon have the same apparent diameter. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 999ecfe | The crew of Apollo 8, who at Christmas, 1968, became the first men ever to set eyes upon the Lunar Farside, told me that they had been tempted to radio back the discovery of a large black monolith: alas, discretion prevailed. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| d626185 | It was such a nuisance that men were fundamentally polygamous. On the other hand, if they weren't... Yes, perhaps it was better this way, after all. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 7024054 | I said nothing about men adapting themselves to Mars. Have you ever considered the possibility of Mars meeting us half-way? | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 8b9c3ea | Bose was slightly less happy about the presence of Conrad Taylor, the celebrated anthropologist, who had made his reputation by uniquely combining scholarship and eroticism in his study of puberty rites in late-twentieth-century Beverly Hills. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| c10302f | Martin's one of the nicest fellows you could meet, as long as you don't do it too often. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| f65c66b | His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People--particularly older ones--still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even the phrase "cutting a tape" was still sometimes heard in recording studios--though that embraced two generations of obsolete technologies." | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 0a2eff9 | There was no evidence that the intelligence of the human race had improved, but for the first time everyone was given the fullest opportunity of using what brain he had. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 4f08c13 | I've just had an amusing flashback. All these creatures going in the same direction--they look like the commuters who used to surge back and forth twice a day between home and office, before electronics made it unnecessary. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| f2eea32 | Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 828df8a | And just fifty years had separated the Wright Brothers from the first jet airliners. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 0c61412 | Behind Alystra was the known world, full of wonder yet empty of surprise, drifting like a brilliant but tightly closed bubble down the river of time. Ahead, separated from her by no more than the span of a few footsteps, was the empty wilderness--the world of the desert--the world of the Invaders. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| e1d264d | That first Prime Monitor," he said, "was sent by the Creator, from another dimension of the early universe, into our evolving space-time system." | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 7896ccd | In Brohier's eyes, violence was not merely the last refuge of the incompetent. It was the gloating revenge of the sore loser. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| d87d598 | This would involve disconnection--the computer equivalent of death. Despite | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| cad3eb5 | the very atoms of his simple brain were being twisted into new patterns. If he survived, those patterns would become eternal, for his genes would pass them on to future generations. It was a slow, tedious business, but the crystal monolith was patient. Neither it, nor its replicas scattered across half the globe, expected to succeed with all the scores of groups involved in the experiment. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 97fc198 | Hal in full control of the ship. The | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| d94678b | fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| e095582 | I'm a tone-deaf siren, a wallflower at the mating dance. And I do wonder why men can't want me for me. I'm smart, I don't defer, and I didn't put making babies number one on my list of priorities. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| d1c0c7c | I'm only an ex-astronomer; it's years since I did any real research. Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 966caa6 | At some signal, floodlights around the lip of the crater were switched on, and the bright earthlight was obliterated by a far more brilliant glare. In the lunar vacuum the beams were, of course, completely invisible; they formed overlapping ellipses of blinding white, centered on the monolith. And where they touched it, its ebon surface seemed to swallow them. Pandora's box, thought Floyd, with a sudden sense of foreboding--waiting to be op.. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 0a09944 | You cannot reason with a rifle bullet fired from across the battlefield. You cannot negotiate with an artillery shell lobbed from over the horizon. You cannot compromise with a nuclear warhead screaming in from half a world away. The only answer to the gun, the only defense for the gun, has been more guns. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 28e1ca2 | It is not easy to run a shipping line between destinations that not only change their positions by millions of kilometers every few days, but also swing through a velocity range of tens of kilometers a second. Anything like a regular schedule is out of the question; there are times when one must forget the whole idea and stay in port--or at least in orbit--waiting for the Solar System to rearrange itself for the greater convenience of Manki.. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 8978406 | all begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people--the good and authentic people--and "unsurrounding" yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world." | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 5293302 | Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 54275fb | First, you're going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 6e117e5 | The beauty of trust is that it erases worry and frees you to get on with other matters. Trust means confidence." --Stephen M.R. Covey" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4950cf3 | Scholars had known for more than fifteen hundred years that the world was large and round. Colon disputed both facts. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 241066d | Cultures are like books, the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss once remarked, each a volume in the great library of humankind. In the sixteenth century, more books were burned than ever before or since. How many Homers vanished? How many Hesiods? What great works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and music vanished or never were created? Languages, prayers, dreams, habits, and hopes--all gone. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 0faea1b | How could the colonists starve in the midst of plenty? One reason was that the English feared leaving Jamestown to fish, because Powhatan's fighters were waiting outside the colony walls. A second reason was that a startlingly large proportion of the colonists were gentlemen, a status defined by not having to perform manual labor. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 85f3a6f | Pilgrim writers universally reported that Wampanoag families were close and loving--more so than English families, some thought. Europeans in those days tended to view children as moving straight from infancy to adulthood around the age of seven, and often thereupon sent them out to work. Indian parents, by contrast, regarded the years before puberty as a time of playful development, and kept their offspring close by until marriage. (Jarrin.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 92d3e14 | Mesoamerica would deserve its place in the human pantheon if its inhabitants had only created maize, in terms of harvest weight the world's most important crop. But the inhabitants of Mexico and northern Central America also developed tomatoes, now basic to Italian cuisine; peppers, essential to Thai and Indian food; all the world's squashes (except for a few domesticated in the United States); and many of the beans on dinner plates around .. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 855b2ac | Maize had an equivalent impact on much of the rest of the world after Columbus introduced it to Europe. Central Europeans became especially hooked on it; by the nineteenth century, maize was the daily bread of Serbia, Rumania, and Moldavia. So | Charles C. Mann | ||
| a4386d3 | Puebla shopkeepers complained that the country was fighting an invasion of counterfeits from China--a Chinese imitation of a Chinese-made Mexican imitation of a Chinese original. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 85d1672 | mistaken. The Columbian Exchange had such far-reaching effects that some biologists now say that Colon's voyages marked the beginning of a new biological era: the Homogenocene. The term refers to homogenizing: mixing unlike substances to create a uniform blend. With the Columbian Exchange, places that were once ecologically distinct have become more alike. In this sense the world has become one, exactly as the old admiral hoped. The lightho.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| b87b3d3 | In the Amazon, the turn to swidden was unfortunate. Slash-and-burn cultivation has become one of the driving forces behind the loss of tropical forest. Although swidden does permit the forest to regrow, it is wildly inefficient and environmentally unsound. The burning sends up in smoke most of the nutrients in the vegetation--almost all of the nitrogen and half the phosphorus and potassium. At the same time, it pours huge amounts of carbon .. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| bd05c34 | Do your clothes make you feel happy, beautiful, comfortable in your skin, handsome, confident, or powerful? | branding communication-skills dress-for-success motivational-speaker quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes success susan-young | Susan C. Young | |
| 91e1c2d | You can be dressed to the nines and have it all going on, but if you don't have shoes to support your look, they can be your undoing. Your shoes should be appropriate, clean, polished, and maintained if you want to make a great impression and fortify your credibility. If your shoes are scuffed, dirty, or worn, clients may wonder what other details you've neglected to attend to. | branding communication-skills dress-for-success motivational-speaker quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes success susan-young | Susan C. Young | |
| 3810b74 | To say your mindset is critical to your success is a gross understatement--it is the underpinning! | build-confidence communication-skills mindset-quotes motivational-speaker preparation-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes susan-young | Susan C. Young | |
| a4bfe20 | Your mindset brings together your attitude, perceptions, experience, interpretations, opinions, beliefs, values, and understanding to determine how you think, act, walk, talk, behave, and engage. | build-confidence communication-skills mindset-quotes motivational-speaker preparation-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes susan-young | Susan C. Young | |
| 38e409f | Would you like to feel a calm confidence when you walk into a room full of strangers, knowing that you can start new a conversation with anyone? | build-confidence communication-skills mindset-quotes motivational-speaker preparation-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes susan-young | Susan C. Young |