The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.
Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.
Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.
If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.
Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.
See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.
If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.
I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads to curiosity, and curiosity has never been a quality that helps one pour his or her genes into the pool. The truth must lie somewhere between. Whatever the reason, it is clearly mediocrity, at best, that lives and breeds.
There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.
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