#ties

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#beings #different #doing #done #future

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#cities #city #cloud #continents #differences

And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#considerable #develop #focusing #frame #going

In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#ahead #event #finding #get #in other words

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#been #capabilities #combined #future #going

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#confounded #contrary #delightful #evil #good

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics. ↗

— John Cameron

#could #entered #fewer #i #knowledge

The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that. ↗

— James Douglas

#communities #had #i #idea #no idea

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#mediocrities #republic #world

From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#broad #coast #defense #duties #guard