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If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.


Barney Oliver


#colonization #demanding #far #figures #indicate

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.


George Orwell


#always #atmosphere #completely #damaging #forms

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.


Wilfred Owen


#ask #barren #held #i #want

People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.


Georgios A. Papandreou


#always #around #big #black #car

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.


Blaise Pascal


#above #contrary #indeed #see #senses

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.


Boris Pasternak


#beast #centuries #cudgel #irresistible #man

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.


Jane Pauley


#celebrity #celebrity thing #happened #i #i think

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.


James Payn


#case #evil #folks #great #hope

By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.


John Pearson


#almighty #bless #blessings #breasts #deep

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.


William Penn


#god #imitate #kings #mercy #should