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• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
  -- Abraham Lincol...
• Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
  -- Henri-Frederic Amiel...
• Each profession talks to itself in its own unique language. Apparently there is no Rosetta Stone.
• So from the depths of its enchantment, Terra was able to calculate a course of action.
  Here at last was an opportunity to consort with Dirbanu on a friendly basis -- great Durbanu which, since it had force fields which Earth could not duplicate, must of necessity have many other things Earth could use...
• The *evident* character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud
  and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn....
• Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies -- that is, which applications of science -- are to be pursued and which not.
  But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited....
• The value of knowledge lies not in its accumulation, but in its utilization.
• Hungry For Love.. And Its Feeding Time... -- Alice Coope
• A Severe Strain on the Credulity As a method of sending a missile to the highe
  and even to the highest parts of the earth's atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddard's rocket is a practicable and therefore promising device....