#ill

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

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If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#could #failed #flip #fly #ground

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#courage #covered #his #last #man

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#preserve #vanity #will #you #yourself

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#done #get #glad #help #i

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#bacteria #being #billions #both #die

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#death #flat #lay #one time #other

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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