#pac

The kid is scary. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#kids #science-fiction #space #science

Upon surrendering with his rocket team to the Americans in 1945: "We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#science #space-race #wernher-von-braun #religion

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#character #characters #ideas #impact #reading

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for. ↗

— Albert Camus

#pacifism #principles #war #die

No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#miracles

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#greater #lfe #our #patience #shorter

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#christianity #pacifism #religion #christianity

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#earth #humanity #outer-space #universe #trouble

With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.
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— Jarod Kintz

#impact #write #writers #writing #career

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'. ↗

— George Orwell

#pacifism #war #effort