Quotern

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I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

-- Jack L. Chalker

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The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question... if that party be the community the happiness of the community, if a particular individual, the happiness of that individual.

-- Jeremy Bentham

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Nature's heart beats strong amid the hills.

-- Richard Monckton Milnes

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

-- Aldous Huxley

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I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

-- Javier Bardem

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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

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It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind.

-- Santosh Kalwar

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A contemporary man who has not participated intimately in actual work in science is, in my opinion, not a modern man. I believe that this experience in science should come early in the life of all of our pupils.

-- Edwin H. Land

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When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors

-- William Shakespeare

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