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• By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous.
  They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat,they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything....
• Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
  -- Jacob Bronowski...
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets" -- The Brigader, "Dr.
  Who...
• Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.
  -- The Brigader, "Dr. Who...
• Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.
  -- The Brigader, from Dr. Who...
• Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets -- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, ROBOT "Dr.
  Who...
• Sex! Lies! Drugs! Money! Power! Corruption! Man, I love Congress!